FILE - This March 31, 2012 file photo, shows Kentucky forward Anthony Davis making a slam dunk against Louisville during the second half of an NCAA Final Four semifinal college basketball tournament game in New Orleans. Davis is a possible pick in the NBA Draft on Jan. 28.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
FILE - This March 31, 2012 file photo, shows Kentucky forward Anthony Davis making a slam dunk against Louisville during the second half of an NCAA Final Four semifinal college basketball tournament game in New Orleans. Davis is a possible pick in the NBA Draft on Jan. 28.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
New Orleans Hornets basketball player Anthony Davis poses in his uniform in New Orleans, Friday, June 29, 2012. Davis was the first pick in the 2012 NBA Draft Thursday night. (AP Photo/Kerry Maloney)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Anthony Davis has a left ankle sprain that must be evaluated later this week before he can be cleared to practice with the U.S. team.
Davis hurt his ankle at the team's training center in Westwego on Saturday, and Hornets spokesman Harold Kaufman said on Monday that the club considers Davis status for resuming training as day to day.
The 6-foot-11Davis, who led the nation with 4.65 blocks per game while leading Kentucky to a national title, is among the players being considered for the American squad at the London Olympics.
Davis was drafted by the Hornets first overall last Thursday night and arrived in New Orleans on Friday. He was slated to train for several days at Hornets facilities, along with fellow New Orleans first-round draft pick Austin Rivers, before departing for U.S. practices that begin this Thursday in Las Vegas.
USA Basketball is scheduled to announce its 12-man Olympic roster on Saturday.
Even if Davis had not been injured, it was not clear that he was going to make the Olympic team. However, if he reports for the U.S. team's pre-Olympic training camp ? whether he can practice or not ? he could be made an alternate, meaning that he could still be called upon to play later this summer if another front-court player on the 12-man roster has an injury or other issue that keeps him from suiting up in London.
USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said Monday that the Americans have no plans to add any additional players despite injuries to several U.S. team candidates including Miami's Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, who have pulled themselves out of contention for the Olympic squad. Colangelo added that USA Basketball would like Davis to report to training camp this week even if he has not been cleared to practice yet.
"We're trying to get a read on his status and then we do want him in Vegas to stay on top of it," Colangelo said.
The Hornets have been supportive of Davis' selection to try out for the Olympic team, hoping that it hastens the 19-year-old's development as he prepares to start the 2012-13 NBA season as a central part of New Orleans' rebuilding effort.
Davis, too, has said he is eager to learn from being on a national team squad that will include some of the top players in the NBA.
"Playing with the superstars in this league ? it'll be a great opportunity for me," Davis said last week. "They'll show me the ropes, show me things I've never seen before. ... I just can't wait to learn from them."
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AP Basketball Writer Brian Mahoney in New York contributed to this report.
FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington. The Obama administration says Pakistan is reopening supply lines into Afghanistan after the U.S. issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike. Clinton says she told Pakistan?s foreign minister in a telephone conversation that the U.S. is ?sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military.? She says both sides acknowledged mistakes that resulted in deaths. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington. The Obama administration says Pakistan is reopening supply lines into Afghanistan after the U.S. issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike. Clinton says she told Pakistan?s foreign minister in a telephone conversation that the U.S. is ?sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military.? She says both sides acknowledged mistakes that resulted in deaths. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Oil tankers, which were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, are parked, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, July 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Pakistani mechanics yield the body of an oil tanker, which was used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, parked with other tankers in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, July 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Shows the recently opened supplied routes from Pakistan to Afghanistan
A Pakistani mechanic works on an oil tanker, which was used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, while parked with other tankers in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The Obama administration said Tuesday that Pakistan was reopening its supply lines into Afghanistan, after the U.S. belatedly issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Ending a bitter seven-month standoff, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized to Pakistan on Tuesday for the killing of 24 Pakistani troops last fall and won in return the reopening of critical NATO supply lines into Afghanistan. The agreement could save the U.S. hundreds of millions of dollars in war costs.
Resolution of the dispute also bandages a relationship with Pakistan that will be crucial in stabilizing the region. The ties have been torn in the past year and a half by everything from a CIA contractor who killed two Pakistanis to the unilateral U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound.
But the accord carries risks for both governments ? threatening to make Pakistan's already fragile civilian leadership look weak and subservient to the United States while offering fodder to Republicans, including presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who contend that President Barack Obama says "sorry" too easily.
The first trucks carrying NATO goods should move across the border on Wednesday, U.S. officials said. It could take days to ramp up supplies to pre-attack levels, but around two dozen impatient truck drivers celebrated the news in a parking lot in the southern city of Karachi by singing, dancing and drumming on empty fuel cans.
"We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military," Clinton said, recounting a telephone conversation she had with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar concerning the deaths that led Pakistan to close the supply routes. "I offered our sincere condolences to the families of the Pakistani soldiers who lost their lives. Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives."
"I am pleased that Foreign Minister Khar has informed me that the ground supply lines into Afghanistan are opening," Clinton added in her statement.
It marked the first time any U.S. official formally apologized for the deaths, a step hotly debated within the Obama administration and one demanded by Pakistan before it would reopen the supply routes. Pakistani lawmakers also wanted Washington to halt all air strikes in the country and stop shipping weapons and ammunition to Afghanistan through Pakistani airspace, demands the U.S. has ignored. Negotiations stumbled at one point over transit fees Pakistan sought to charge.
The November incident was the deadliest among the allies in the decade-long fight against al-Qaida and other extremist groups along the Afghan-Pakistani frontier.
An American investigation found that Pakistani forces fired first and U.S. soldiers responded in self-defense. It blamed bad maps, poor coordination and Islamabad's failure to provide the locations of its borders for the failure to determine if Pakistani forces were in the area. Pakistan argued that its troops shot at militants who were nowhere near coalition soldiers, and accused the U.S. of launching a deliberate attack.
The breakdown of the U.S.-Pakistani partnership arrived at an awful time, only weeks after Clinton and CIA Director David Petraeus went to Islamabad to patch up the relationship and secure a Pakistani commitment to snuff out support given by its intelligence services to the Taliban ? support that Washington sees as a threat to the Afghan war effort.
The Obama administration, in an election year, expressed regret for the deaths but dug in its heels over the word "sorry," fearful it might open the president to criticism from Republicans already critical of Pakistan's links with militants fighting in Afghanistan.
It is also unclear what the apology will mean for the U.S. call for Pakistan to crack down on the militant Haqqani network, which is believed to use Pakistan as a rear base for attacks on American troops in Afghanistan.
Having titled his campaign book, "No Apology," Romney accuses Obama of having gone "around the world and apologized for America." The accusation refers to Obama's trip to Cairo early in his presidency, when he sought to repair U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Clinton's remarks made no reference to an "apology," though she did use the word "sorry."
Obama made no comments about Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving Clinton's statement as the only official U.S. explanation of the agreement. It was released just as Pakistani civilian and military leaders were meeting to discuss whether to reopen the routes, and there was no confirmation from Islamabad of a decision for more than two hours.
"The main thing is that a superpower has acknowledged our principled stance, and they have shown flexibility," said Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, speaking in Urdu. "It was not the issue of money. It was the issue of our sovereignty," he said, adding that American authorities assured Pakistan there would be no repeat of the incident.
The prime minister's office said the government reopened the supply lines in and out of Afghanistan to help its northern neighbor's "transformation process" more than a decade after bin Laden used the country to launch the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the U.S. responded by helping overthrow the Taliban.
It stressed that re-opening the supply lines would help the U.S. pull out of Afghanistan sooner, saying the transition was in "Pakistan's interest." The statement sought to head off the inevitable political backlash in a country where anti-American sentiment is rife and the United States is often blamed for internal problems.
Still, Pakistan's more conservative political groups rejected the decision. Amirul Azim, a top leader of Pakistan's radical Jamaat-e-Islami party, said, "The main thing is that we should not reopen the NATO supply route, and we should isolate ourselves from this so-called war against terrorism."
The Pakistani Taliban vowed to attack the supply trucks once they started moving.
"We will do our best to stop the NATO supply and will never allow someone to ship weapons for killing Muslims," Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location.
The fallout over the re-opened supply lines could hurt Pakistan's civilian government, which was re-established four years ago after a history of military coups. It has struggled to assert itself against the powerful Pakistani army and hardline Islamist religious leaders and politicians, who will likely point to the several parliamentary demands the U.S. ignored, including the call for an "unconditional apology" for the attack. Washington mentioned mistakes on both sides.
Clinton said Pakistan wouldn't charge any new transit fee and the reopening would help the U.S. draw down its forces in Afghanistan "at a much lower cost."
The U.S. government has never paid transit fees directly. Pakistan charges companies $250 per truck for transit, and the U.S. accounts for those fees in its contracts with those companies, so it pays indirectly. During negotiations Pakistan had asked for a flat fee of up to $5,000, but Washington offered extensive road construction projects to sweeten the deal.
With the supply lines closed, the U.S. has been forced to use more costly transportation routes through Russia and Central Asia. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had estimated the cost at an extra $100 million a month, warning that it could get more expensive as the U.S. started to withdraw equipment in advance of the 2014 troop drawdown in Afghanistan.
Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said that once the backlog of materiel clears the re-opened supply routes, "we expect to be able to save between $70 million and $100 million per month."
The $100 million a month estimate would mean the lengthy standoff cost U.S. taxpayers some $700 million, and denied Pakistan's revenue-starved government millions of dollars in transit fees.
The total could be more.
The Pentagon asked Congress last week for approval to transfer $2.1 billion from other funds to cover costs largely resulting from the closure of the Pakistan supply routes.
Three separate transfers totaling $1.7 billion covered increased fuel and transportation costs for the Army resulting from the closed routes. A fourth transfer of about $370 million was for the Air Force, which had to increase the transportation of supplies by air in part to compensate for the shutdown of the ground routes through Pakistan. The budget request did not specify how much of the $370 million was related to the Pakistan problems and how much was just additional support for the war.
Much of those added costs already have been incurred, but the Pentagon plans to do a review of the transfers to see whether any of the money can be saved, although no major changes are expected.
Panetta said Tuesday he welcomed Pakistan's decision.
"We remain committed to improving our partnership with Pakistan and to working closely together as our two nations confront common security challenges in the region," he said.
According to a senior defense official, the agreement also could cost the U.S. as much as $1.1 billion. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details were not final, said the Pentagon intends to submit $1.1 billion in approved requests for reimbursement of money the Pakistan government has spent on counterterrorism operations that were incurred largely along the border.
The requests for aid are approved by the defense secretary and then Congress is notified. Lawmakers can vote to reject them.
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Rebecca Santana reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, Sebastian Abbot in Islamabad and Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed to this report.
Roscoe ISD (Independent School District) has applied for the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium through the TEA (Texas Education Agency). The Consortium, according to the TEA website, is "a group of up to 20 districts and open-enrollment charter schools charged with informing the governor, legislature, and commissioner of education concerning methods for transforming public schools through the development of innovative, next-generation learning standards, assessment, and accountability systems." Four principles will be addressed by the Consortium: digital learning--which includes electronic materials, learning standards to help students become successful "in a competitive post-secondary environment", multiple assessments in regards to student progress and learning, and local control in order for input and involvement at the local level. Consortium participants will also help the commissioner develop reports on recommendations, performance and the progress of the Consortium to the governor and legislature, the website explained. The commissioner will make a varied selection for the participants and will consider district type, size, student demographics and the quality of proposals. The total number of participants is limited to no more than 249,000 students, which equates to 5% of the total number of students enrolled in Texas public schools. Applicants must meet certain criteria for eligibility. The district and its campuses must have received a performance rating of either Academically Acceptable, Recognized or Exemplary in the 2010-11 state accountability system; the district or one of its campuses must also have received national, statewide or regional acknowledgment from an organization relying on expertise in the field of education for excellence in either academic performances or innovative practices in one of the areas described by the Consortium principles. Open-enrollment charter schools must have earned an Exemplary rating, and all applicants must be complying with the TEA audit requirements from the Texas Education Code. Applicants must also meet certain criteria that is laid out in the Consortium Request for Application (RFA), and they may select which of their campuses will participate in the Consortium. Applications were first made available at the end of April of this year. A webinar was held on June 4, with a three-day opportunity for applicants to submit clarifying questions, which were later published on June 11. The applications for the Consortium were due on June 29 by 5 p.m. with a required $500 application fee. Approval from the applying district's board of trustees must have been obtained prior to submission. Jacob Tiemann, principal of the Roscoe Collegiate High School, stated, "In May 58% of our graduating class earned their associate's degree two weeks prior to earning their high school diploma. What education looks like in Texas is changing and in the current environment that schools are operating in, we feel it is critical to assume a leadership role in developing the next accountability system. " Other schools who have applied for the Consortium along with Roscoe ISD include Brownwood ISD, Lewisville ISD and Harlingen CISD. The announcement of who will be part of the Consortium will be made in August.
No stranger to throwing in some extra, if not-that-functional, additions to its products, Google's new audio orb packs its own Easter egg -- a Magic 8 Ball mode. Tapping the Nexus Q's image in its companion Android app will throw up a new screen, offering voice input to take your existential questions. Replies are certainly of the Magic 8 Ball caliber, although there's no accelerometer-based shaker -- at least not yet.
Philadelphia, PA, July 3, 2012 Exposure to childhood maltreatment increases the risk for most psychiatric disorders as well as many negative consequences of these conditions. This new study, by Dr. Gustavo Turecki and colleagues at McGill University, Canada, provides important insight into one of the most extreme outcomes, suicide.
"In this study, we expanded our previous work on the epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene by investigating the impact of severe early-life adversity on DNA methylation," explained Dr. Turecki. The glucocorticoid receptor is important because it is a brain target for the stress hormone cortisol.
The researchers studied brain tissue from people who had committed suicide, some of whom had a history of childhood maltreatment, and compared that tissue to people who had died from other causes. They found that particular variants of the glucocorticoid receptor were less likely to be present in the limbic system, or emotion circuit, of the brain in people who had committed suicide and were maltreated as children compared to the other two groups.
This study also advances the understanding of how the altered pattern of glucocorticoid receptor regulation developed in the maltreated suicide completers. The authors found that the pattern of methylation of the gene coding for the glucocorticoid receptors was altered in the suicide completers with a history of abuse. These DNA methylation differences were associated with distinct gene expression patterns.
Since methylation is one way that genes are switched on or off for long periods of time, it appears that childhood adversity can produce long-lasting changes in the regulation of a key stress response system that may be associated with increased risk for suicide.
"Preventing suicide is a critical challenge for psychiatry. This study provides important new information about brain changes that may increase the risk of suicide," said Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry. "It is striking that early life maltreatment can produce these long-lasting changes in the control of specific genes in the brain. It is also troubling that the consequences of this process can be so dire. Thus, it is important that we continue to study these epigenetic processes that seem to underlie aspects of the lasting consequences of childhood adversity."
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The article is "Differential Glucocorticoid Receptor Exon 1B, 1C, and 1H Expression and Methylation in Suicide Completers with a History of Childhood Abuse" by Benoit Labonte, Volodymyr Yerko, Jeffrey Gross, Naguib Mechawar, Michael J. Meaney, Moshe Szyf, and Gustavo Turecki (doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.01.034). The article appears in Biological Psychiatry, Volume 72, Issue 1 (July 1, 2012), published by Elsevier.
Notes for editors
Full text of the article is available to credentialed journalists upon request; contact Rhiannon Bugno at +1 214 648 0880 or Biol.Psych@utsouthwestern.edu. Journalists wishing to interview the authors may contact Gustavo Turecki at +1 514 761 6131 ext. 3366 or gustavo.turecki@mcgill.ca.
The authors' affiliations, and disclosures of financial and conflicts of interests are available in the article.
John H. Krystal, M.D., is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and a research psychiatrist at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. His disclosures of financial and conflicts of interests are available here.
About Biological Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, whose purpose is to promote excellence in scientific research and education in fields that investigate the nature, causes, mechanisms and treatments of disorders of thought, emotion, or behavior. In accord with this mission, this peer-reviewed, rapid-publication, international journal publishes both basic and clinical contributions from all disciplines and research areas relevant to the pathophysiology and treatment of major psychiatric disorders.
The journal publishes novel results of original research which represent an important new lead or significant impact on the field, particularly those addressing genetic and environmental risk factors, neural circuitry and neurochemistry, and important new therapeutic approaches. Reviews and commentaries that focus on topics of current research and interest are also encouraged.
Biological Psychiatry is one of the most selective and highly cited journals in the field of psychiatric neuroscience. It is ranked 4th out of 126 Psychiatry titles and 15th out of 237 Neurosciences titles in the Journal Citations Reports published by Thomson Reuters. The 2010 Impact Factor score for Biological Psychiatry is 8.674.
About Elsevier
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A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
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Philadelphia, PA, July 3, 2012 Exposure to childhood maltreatment increases the risk for most psychiatric disorders as well as many negative consequences of these conditions. This new study, by Dr. Gustavo Turecki and colleagues at McGill University, Canada, provides important insight into one of the most extreme outcomes, suicide.
"In this study, we expanded our previous work on the epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene by investigating the impact of severe early-life adversity on DNA methylation," explained Dr. Turecki. The glucocorticoid receptor is important because it is a brain target for the stress hormone cortisol.
The researchers studied brain tissue from people who had committed suicide, some of whom had a history of childhood maltreatment, and compared that tissue to people who had died from other causes. They found that particular variants of the glucocorticoid receptor were less likely to be present in the limbic system, or emotion circuit, of the brain in people who had committed suicide and were maltreated as children compared to the other two groups.
This study also advances the understanding of how the altered pattern of glucocorticoid receptor regulation developed in the maltreated suicide completers. The authors found that the pattern of methylation of the gene coding for the glucocorticoid receptors was altered in the suicide completers with a history of abuse. These DNA methylation differences were associated with distinct gene expression patterns.
Since methylation is one way that genes are switched on or off for long periods of time, it appears that childhood adversity can produce long-lasting changes in the regulation of a key stress response system that may be associated with increased risk for suicide.
"Preventing suicide is a critical challenge for psychiatry. This study provides important new information about brain changes that may increase the risk of suicide," said Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry. "It is striking that early life maltreatment can produce these long-lasting changes in the control of specific genes in the brain. It is also troubling that the consequences of this process can be so dire. Thus, it is important that we continue to study these epigenetic processes that seem to underlie aspects of the lasting consequences of childhood adversity."
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The article is "Differential Glucocorticoid Receptor Exon 1B, 1C, and 1H Expression and Methylation in Suicide Completers with a History of Childhood Abuse" by Benoit Labonte, Volodymyr Yerko, Jeffrey Gross, Naguib Mechawar, Michael J. Meaney, Moshe Szyf, and Gustavo Turecki (doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.01.034). The article appears in Biological Psychiatry, Volume 72, Issue 1 (July 1, 2012), published by Elsevier.
Notes for editors
Full text of the article is available to credentialed journalists upon request; contact Rhiannon Bugno at +1 214 648 0880 or Biol.Psych@utsouthwestern.edu. Journalists wishing to interview the authors may contact Gustavo Turecki at +1 514 761 6131 ext. 3366 or gustavo.turecki@mcgill.ca.
The authors' affiliations, and disclosures of financial and conflicts of interests are available in the article.
John H. Krystal, M.D., is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and a research psychiatrist at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. His disclosures of financial and conflicts of interests are available here.
About Biological Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, whose purpose is to promote excellence in scientific research and education in fields that investigate the nature, causes, mechanisms and treatments of disorders of thought, emotion, or behavior. In accord with this mission, this peer-reviewed, rapid-publication, international journal publishes both basic and clinical contributions from all disciplines and research areas relevant to the pathophysiology and treatment of major psychiatric disorders.
The journal publishes novel results of original research which represent an important new lead or significant impact on the field, particularly those addressing genetic and environmental risk factors, neural circuitry and neurochemistry, and important new therapeutic approaches. Reviews and commentaries that focus on topics of current research and interest are also encouraged.
Biological Psychiatry is one of the most selective and highly cited journals in the field of psychiatric neuroscience. It is ranked 4th out of 126 Psychiatry titles and 15th out of 237 Neurosciences titles in the Journal Citations Reports published by Thomson Reuters. The 2010 Impact Factor score for Biological Psychiatry is 8.674.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
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A device about the size of a dime can manipulate living materials such as blood cells and entire small organisms, using sound waves, according to a team of bioengineers and biochemists from Penn State.
The device, called acoustic tweezers, is the first technology capable of touchlessly trapping and manipulating Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), a one millimeter long roundworm that is an important model system for studying diseases and development in humans. Acoustic tweezers are also capable of precisely manipulating cellular-scale objects that are essential to many areas of fundamental biomedical research.
Acoustic tweezers use ultrasound, the same noninvasive technology doctors use to capture images of the fetus in the womb. The device is based on piezoelectric material that moves when under an electrical current. The vibrations pass through transducers attached to the piezoelectric substrate, where they are converted into standing surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The SAWs create pressure fields in the liquid medium that hold the specimen. The simple electronics in the device can tune the SAWs to precisely and noninvasively hold and move the specimen or inorganic object.
"We believe the device can be easily manufactured at a cost far lower than say, optical tweezers, which use lasers to manipulate single particles," said Tony Jun Huang, associate professor of bioengineering, whose group pioneered acoustic tweezers. "Optical tweezers require power densities 10,000,000 times greater than our acoustic tweezers, and the lasers can heat up and damage the cells, unlike ultrasound."
For many biological systems, acoustic tweezers will provide an excellent tool to mimic the conditions inside the body where cells are subject to waves of pressure and pulses of chemicals. The researchers published their results in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Acoustic tweezers will be used to position cells for interrogation by pulses of drug-like molecules to test as well as to exert mechanical forces on the cell wall," according to Stephen Benkovic, Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry and holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Chemistry, whose group contributed to the paper, "The cells will contain bio-chemical markers, so we can observe the effect of drug pulses or pressure on the cell's biochemistry."
Acoustic tweezers are very versatile, said Huang. "We can manipulate a single cell or we can manipulate tens of thousands of cells at the same time."
Currently, the size of objects that can be moved with acoustic tweezers ranges from micrometers to millimeters, although with higher frequencies, it should be possible to move objects in the nanoscale regime, the researchers believe. Further work will include modifying the device to accommodate more fundamental biomedical studies with the Benkovic group.
Ultimately, the patent pending technology could lead to compact, noninvasive and inexpensive point-of-care applications, such as blood cell and cancer cell sorting and diagnostics. For now, the ability to trap and manipulate a living C. elegans for study is proof of their device's potential utility.
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The writing's been on the wall for some time now, with this having been considered a done-deal back in March, but now the two parties involved are going public. Beats Electronics, the house that Dre built, is acquiring the MOG music streaming service, adding a little content to its brightly-colored can offerings. No word on cost, but MOG is said to have raised $33 million in funding to date, so that might give you a ballpark figure. It's also unclear how or whether Beats-investor HTC might be involved in this new relationship, but if recent happenings are any indication, don't go expecting too much on that front.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:35 am?? ?Post subject: what does your exercise routine/diet look like?
I wanted to share my exercise routine with y'all.
If the first day of the week were Monday then:
[Monday]
3 mile run. Goal is to run as fast as I can and as far as i can with a minimal distance of 3 miles.
Then 200 jack knives with a 10 pound plate.
[Tuesday]
bench and butterfly presses. Super setted with 4-6 sets. Bench weight is medium(Aim is to push high on the reps and cut up).
[Wednesday]
A 1 and a half mile run under 6 minutes. Then sprints with no rest in between intervals, just slow jogs.
obliques
[Thursday]
200 pull ups(Variated). Wides, diamonds, and behind the neck.Which i will split into 2 forms, hands facing me and hands facing away(Chin ups and pull ups).
Upperbody plyometrics
[Friday]
Relaxed run with a 3 mile minimum.
[Saturday]
Rest
[Sunday]
Rest
[Diet]
I do not follow a diet. Just lots of carbs! Only water and 100% juice. Lots of meat and i eat junk foot and foods cooked in oils.
What does your routine/diet look like.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 1:10 am?? ?Post subject:
Let's see, it's been crap, as I've been all busy with my family and my house is a mess and all kinds of stuff like that. But generally...
Ice skating from 12-1:20, usually some coffee/energy drink before skating and that's it. Sometimes if I'm lucky I'll have some eggs.
At night sometime, I'll lift weights, usually I'll do snatches, pretty much obsessed with snatches, though I suck at them and have poor technique. Then either squats or deadlifts, used to do a lot of clean and jerks. I squat Olympic style now, use less weight that way, though. I feel it's more helpful for skating, especially if I start doing sit spins and whatnot. Let's see, I do overhead presses, standing strict presses. Hard to get the weight up on those, it's so frustrating, I can seemingly always get my squat or deadlift up by like 20lbs a month easy, and then my overhead press using the same routine (of basically me f***ing around doing whatever I feel like that day) has gone up like...10 in 8 months? Let's see, I try to do pistols, too, but my balance sucks for pistols, but it's something I eventually need to learn to do for skating purposes. Occasionally, not as much as I used to (I say not as much as I used to for everything, because everything is a mess right now in my house, literally and figuratively) I did a lot of plyo jumps, box jumps, one leg jumps, etc. I also used to do punching bag work (I did that when I first started out, before weights) and lost interest/didn't make time for it anymore. OH! Last but not least, I do lots of slideboard. Usually I go on it without weights to warm up, then I go on it for 3-5 minutes at a time with 15s, occasionally 20s in each hand, so it turns into basically a skating farmers walk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY_4pjozF1w That's a slideboard.
As far as my diet. Lame. Diet, sleep, and stress affect me the most of all things in my life, and they all go interchangeably. I'm kinda constantly trying to tweak it to be better. At the advice of some posters on here, I've been cutting out carbs for the most part, and feel much better. I found out rye bread and me agree, but majority wheat bread and me don't. So this week, as a pretty "optimal" diet, it was 5 strips of bacon, 2 eggs, a patty of breakfast sausage, and then pan toast made with bacon grease. That was "brunch" I guess, and then for second meal, similar smaller meal like that. Then dinner, a 1/4-1/3 head of cabbage, and 3-4 links of Italian pork sausage cooked in water with spices and a bit of spaghetti sauce (with dat dere soybean oil in it, yay...) This seems like a good diet for me, as the fat content means I don't get hungry very quick. That, and it gives me more cholesterol to make hormones. My problem eating a lot of carbs is I eat a ton of food. I'm the type of person that can eat a large pizza and then still eat more like an hour later. So so far, this seems like a decent diet, but as it's said "everything works...for a while." Also did it a bit on the advice of the crazy (but cool) man Frank Yang, he said when cutting he just needed to drop carbs.
My big problem dietwise comes from the fact I live with my family (only mother and sisters), and don't have a job. So my mom buys all a bunch of processed food and then just tells me "You can get $20 worth of stuff for the week" so since I don't eat the processed food, I can't really eat very "balanced" like that. I don't have much for supps, either, cheap crappy multivitamins, fish oil pills, and b vitamin pills, and that's about it. I've had whey protein like twice, meanwhile my family buys like $30-40 worth of bottled water a month. Occasionally I take ginseng, too, again, cheapest crappiest grade pills of it from the dollar store. So yes, I could go on forever about how insane my family's nutritional and general money thought process is, but yes. _________________ The world would be such a better place if fish don't have bones. Imagine munching on fish like burgers without having to pin-pick it. - Frank Yang
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amboxer21
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Jun 24, 2011 Age: 25 Posts: 176 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:08 am?? ?Post subject:
1000Knives wrote:
Let's see, it's been crap, as I've been all busy with my family and my house is a mess and all kinds of stuff like that. But generally...
Ice skating from 12-1:20, usually some coffee/energy drink before skating and that's it. Sometimes if I'm lucky I'll have some eggs.
At night sometime, I'll lift weights, usually I'll do snatches, pretty much obsessed with snatches, though I suck at them and have poor technique. Then either squats or deadlifts, used to do a lot of clean and jerks. I squat Olympic style now, use less weight that way, though. I feel it's more helpful for skating, especially if I start doing sit spins and whatnot. Let's see, I do overhead presses, standing strict presses. Hard to get the weight up on those, it's so frustrating, I can seemingly always get my squat or deadlift up by like 20lbs a month easy, and then my overhead press using the same routine (of basically me f***ing around doing whatever I feel like that day) has gone up like...10 in 8 months? Let's see, I try to do pistols, too, but my balance sucks for pistols, but it's something I eventually need to learn to do for skating purposes. Occasionally, not as much as I used to (I say not as much as I used to for everything, because everything is a mess right now in my house, literally and figuratively) I did a lot of plyo jumps, box jumps, one leg jumps, etc. I also used to do punching bag work (I did that when I first started out, before weights) and lost interest/didn't make time for it anymore. OH! Last but not least, I do lots of slideboard. Usually I go on it without weights to warm up, then I go on it for 3-5 minutes at a time with 15s, occasionally 20s in each hand, so it turns into basically a skating farmers walk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY_4pjozF1w That's a slideboard.
As far as my diet. Lame. Diet, sleep, and stress affect me the most of all things in my life, and they all go interchangeably. I'm kinda constantly trying to tweak it to be better. At the advice of some posters on here, I've been cutting out carbs for the most part, and feel much better. I found out rye bread and me agree, but majority wheat bread and me don't. So this week, as a pretty "optimal" diet, it was 5 strips of bacon, 2 eggs, a patty of breakfast sausage, and then pan toast made with bacon grease. That was "brunch" I guess, and then for second meal, similar smaller meal like that. Then dinner, a 1/4-1/3 head of cabbage, and 3-4 links of Italian pork sausage cooked in water with spices and a bit of spaghetti sauce (with dat dere soybean oil in it, yay...) This seems like a good diet for me, as the fat content means I don't get hungry very quick. That, and it gives me more cholesterol to make hormones. My problem eating a lot of carbs is I eat a ton of food. I'm the type of person that can eat a large pizza and then still eat more like an hour later. So so far, this seems like a decent diet, but as it's said "everything works...for a while." Also did it a bit on the advice of the crazy (but cool) man Frank Yang, he said when cutting he just needed to drop carbs.
My big problem dietwise comes from the fact I live with my family (only mother and sisters), and don't have a job. So my mom buys all a bunch of processed food and then just tells me "You can get $20 worth of stuff for the week" so since I don't eat the processed food, I can't really eat very "balanced" like that. I don't have much for supps, either, cheap crappy multivitamins, fish oil pills, and b vitamin pills, and that's about it. I've had whey protein like twice, meanwhile my family buys like $30-40 worth of bottled water a month. Occasionally I take ginseng, too, again, cheapest crappiest grade pills of it from the dollar store. So yes, I could go on forever about how insane my family's nutritional and general money thought process is, but yes.
With a name like 1000knives, I never pictured you ice skating lol Nice routine though! This is a light routine for me, so I guess you could say Im slacking too! What I need to do is double up the work, intensity, and reps/weight that I am doing now!! I probably hit a plateau on my gain since my work out is practically non-existant! makes me feel like a piece of crap... like i am not working hard enough!!
On a side note; carbs are good for you! It is a big myth that you need to cut them out of your diet to get toned/cut up. Along with the myth of lactic acid being the culprit of sore muscles. Which is far from the truth!! Hydrogen ion is actually responsible and the body needs carbs when you work out. that is the energy source for exercise and not to mention that the body needs a certain amount of carbs a day or it will eat the muscle and do other nasty stuff!
It is actually a very interesting but complex process! I had to learn it while i was competing in boxing for the sole purpose of being able to cut the proper way! I walk around at about 190-195 if i dont exercise. If i do, like now, I tend to weight in the 205-210 area. Im 210 now. Point is, I would have to cut down to 160. its a lot of weight that would have to be cut properly! getting rid of fat deposits isnt easy man lol
What got you into that olympic style exercising and dead lifts. Whats that all for, brute strength or something? Isolation of the lower body?
I love food to much man to go on a diet lol Ring dings and pizza and ice cream and onion rings... speghetti lol Im a fat person stuck in an athletic body lol
I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT BELIEVE IN SUPPLIMENTS!!!!!! They are unnatural and evil! I believe everything should be done naturally!! I dont even take aspirin. TO each their own though 1000knives!
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Deinonychus
Joined: Jun 14, 2012 Age: 29 Posts: 303 Location: New Jersey, USA
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:19 am?? ?Post subject:
OP, are you in good shape? If so, were you always in good shape and this is just to maintain? Or are you in poor shape and have seen improvement/no improvement.
I've got a potbelly I'd like to get rid of. I don't do much of anything in the way of exercise. The rest of my body is quite lanky, it's not a proportional fat that I see in other people (which could actually work to their advantage sometimes because they "look big").
I look scrawny but with a sandbag above my waist. Any tips or suggestion to get rid of it? How long will it take?
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amboxer21
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Jun 24, 2011 Age: 25 Posts: 176 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:58 am?? ?Post subject:
again_with_this wrote:
OP, are you in good shape? If so, were you always in good shape and this is just to maintain? Or are you in poor shape and have seen improvement/no improvement.
I've got a potbelly I'd like to get rid of. I don't do much of anything in the way of exercise. The rest of my body is quite lanky, it's not a proportional fat that I see in other people (which could actually work to their advantage sometimes because they "look big").
I look scrawny but with a sandbag above my waist. Any tips or suggestion to get rid of it? How long will it take?
Jersey representing! I would say i am in pretty good shape! I'm 210 and have around 14% body fat. What I am chasing now is slow progress. If I double up, then I will be cutting at a decent pace! Which I plan on doing! For some reason I love exercise!! Its such a challenge but so freaking rewarding. You get to push yourself beyond your limits and it feels great!! I get high from exercising! A natural high.
But If I were you, I would start jogging!! Also, do some core exercises with light weights or lots and lots of walking with light dumb bells while you walk and curl them as you walk! The most important thing is that you need to do something. Anything is better than nothing!!! And the more the better!
ME while I was boxing. I weighted 165lbs and woked out 6 hours a day 5 days a week.
I am in great shape just have to double up on everything I am doing now! Push harder, faster, longer!! I am cuious to know as how 1000knives looks!
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Deinonychus
Joined: Jun 14, 2012 Age: 29 Posts: 303 Location: New Jersey, USA
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:15 am?? ?Post subject:
amboxer21 wrote:
I am in great shape just have to double up on everything I am doing now! Push harder, faster, longer!! I am cuious to know as how 1000knives looks!
Show off!
But seriously, thanks for the advice, I'll start jogging. But I might be self conscious walking around with weights in my hands.
About how long, if you had to guess, to work off a belly with this method?
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amboxer21
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Jun 24, 2011 Age: 25 Posts: 176 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:20 am?? ?Post subject:
again_with_this wrote:
amboxer21 wrote:
I am in great shape just have to double up on everything I am doing now! Push harder, faster, longer!! I am cuious to know as how 1000knives looks!
Show off!
But seriously, thanks for the advice, I'll start jogging. But I might be self conscious walking around with weights in my hands.
About how long, if you had to guess, to work off a belly with this method?
Yeah I am lol Hey i work hard and should be able too IDK man hard to say. Its all on how hard you work! You should be talking to kx250rider about this though! He is in shape 40 times past what i am at! And Im bad with this kind of stuff... ADVICE lol
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TM
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Joined: Feb 04, 2012 Posts: 1372
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:07 am?? ?Post subject:
I posted my 4 day split here http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt201973.html
I also do 45 minutes of steady state cardio 4 - 7 days a week.
My diet:
2 scoops of Superfood (22g of protein, with plenty of glutamine and leucine)
about 2 - 3 protein shakes, with Whey in water with some heavy cream to bump fat.
5 - 10g of creatine daily (which I'm sure is screwing up my body fat scale)
Then 1 - 2 regular meals usually consisting of protein (chicken breasts, minced meat, sausages, eggs etc) with some kind of vegetables.
This is a low carb approach to drop body fat though, so its not really my normal diet which would include about 100 - 200g of carbohydrates.
5x5 bench press
5x5 shoulder press
3x8 incline bench press
3x6 narrow grip bench press (I no longer do dips, because of rotator cuff problems)
3x8 lateral raise (I hate this, but the lateral deltoids are hard to hit otherwise)
Day 2 (Biceps, core, legs):
4x6 weighted pull-ups
1x6+2x5 rack pulls (I only do this once every week)
3x8 bent over barbell rows
2x8+2x6 squats (ass to the grass)
3x8 calf raise
3x10 machine crunches
3x8 bicep curls (but only when my arms aren't tired)
1-2 days rest and cycle repeats. As you can see, isolation exercises aren't "my thing".
I am in great shape just have to double up on everything I am doing now! Push harder, faster, longer!! I am cuious to know as how 1000knives looks!
Show off!
But seriously, thanks for the advice, I'll start jogging. But I might be self conscious walking around with weights in my hands.
About how long, if you had to guess, to work off a belly with this method?
Yeah I am lol Hey i work hard and should be able too IDK man hard to say. Its all on how hard you work! You should be talking to kx250rider about this though! He is in shape 40 times past what i am at! And Im bad with this kind of stuff... ADVICE lol
IMHO looking that ripped takes a lot of work and dicipline at any age. Needless to say that it's an amazing physique for someone in his mid 40's.
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1000Knives
Lonely Rolling Star
Joined: Jul 09, 2011 Age: 21 Posts: 1877
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:18 pm?? ?Post subject:
amboxer21 wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
Let's see, it's been crap, as I've been all busy with my family and my house is a mess and all kinds of stuff like that. But generally...
Ice skating from 12-1:20, usually some coffee/energy drink before skating and that's it. Sometimes if I'm lucky I'll have some eggs.
At night sometime, I'll lift weights, usually I'll do snatches, pretty much obsessed with snatches, though I suck at them and have poor technique. Then either squats or deadlifts, used to do a lot of clean and jerks. I squat Olympic style now, use less weight that way, though. I feel it's more helpful for skating, especially if I start doing sit spins and whatnot. Let's see, I do overhead presses, standing strict presses. Hard to get the weight up on those, it's so frustrating, I can seemingly always get my squat or deadlift up by like 20lbs a month easy, and then my overhead press using the same routine (of basically me f***ing around doing whatever I feel like that day) has gone up like...10 in 8 months? Let's see, I try to do pistols, too, but my balance sucks for pistols, but it's something I eventually need to learn to do for skating purposes. Occasionally, not as much as I used to (I say not as much as I used to for everything, because everything is a mess right now in my house, literally and figuratively) I did a lot of plyo jumps, box jumps, one leg jumps, etc. I also used to do punching bag work (I did that when I first started out, before weights) and lost interest/didn't make time for it anymore. OH! Last but not least, I do lots of slideboard. Usually I go on it without weights to warm up, then I go on it for 3-5 minutes at a time with 15s, occasionally 20s in each hand, so it turns into basically a skating farmers walk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY_4pjozF1w That's a slideboard.
As far as my diet. Lame. Diet, sleep, and stress affect me the most of all things in my life, and they all go interchangeably. I'm kinda constantly trying to tweak it to be better. At the advice of some posters on here, I've been cutting out carbs for the most part, and feel much better. I found out rye bread and me agree, but majority wheat bread and me don't. So this week, as a pretty "optimal" diet, it was 5 strips of bacon, 2 eggs, a patty of breakfast sausage, and then pan toast made with bacon grease. That was "brunch" I guess, and then for second meal, similar smaller meal like that. Then dinner, a 1/4-1/3 head of cabbage, and 3-4 links of Italian pork sausage cooked in water with spices and a bit of spaghetti sauce (with dat dere soybean oil in it, yay...) This seems like a good diet for me, as the fat content means I don't get hungry very quick. That, and it gives me more cholesterol to make hormones. My problem eating a lot of carbs is I eat a ton of food. I'm the type of person that can eat a large pizza and then still eat more like an hour later. So so far, this seems like a decent diet, but as it's said "everything works...for a while." Also did it a bit on the advice of the crazy (but cool) man Frank Yang, he said when cutting he just needed to drop carbs.
My big problem dietwise comes from the fact I live with my family (only mother and sisters), and don't have a job. So my mom buys all a bunch of processed food and then just tells me "You can get $20 worth of stuff for the week" so since I don't eat the processed food, I can't really eat very "balanced" like that. I don't have much for supps, either, cheap crappy multivitamins, fish oil pills, and b vitamin pills, and that's about it. I've had whey protein like twice, meanwhile my family buys like $30-40 worth of bottled water a month. Occasionally I take ginseng, too, again, cheapest crappiest grade pills of it from the dollar store. So yes, I could go on forever about how insane my family's nutritional and general money thought process is, but yes.
With a name like 1000knives, I never pictured you ice skating lol Nice routine though! This is a light routine for me, so I guess you could say Im slacking too! What I need to do is double up the work, intensity, and reps/weight that I am doing now!! I probably hit a plateau on my gain since my work out is practically non-existant! makes me feel like a piece of crap... like i am not working hard enough!!
On a side note; carbs are good for you! It is a big myth that you need to cut them out of your diet to get toned/cut up. Along with the myth of lactic acid being the culprit of sore muscles. Which is far from the truth!! Hydrogen ion is actually responsible and the body needs carbs when you work out. that is the energy source for exercise and not to mention that the body needs a certain amount of carbs a day or it will eat the muscle and do other nasty stuff!
It is actually a very interesting but complex process! I had to learn it while i was competing in boxing for the sole purpose of being able to cut the proper way! I walk around at about 190-195 if i dont exercise. If i do, like now, I tend to weight in the 205-210 area. Im 210 now. Point is, I would have to cut down to 160. its a lot of weight that would have to be cut properly! getting rid of fat deposits isnt easy man lol
What got you into that olympic style exercising and dead lifts. Whats that all for, brute strength or something? Isolation of the lower body?
I love food to much man to go on a diet lol Ring dings and pizza and ice cream and onion rings... speghetti lol Im a fat person stuck in an athletic body lol
I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT BELIEVE IN SUPPLIMENTS!!!!!! They are unnatural and evil! I believe everything should be done naturally!! I dont even take aspirin. TO each their own though 1000knives!
I look like the people in the squatz and oatz cartoons. Huge legs, tiny upper body. 20%ish BF (maybe as low as 17-18%, who knows) so not really spectacular looking. I'm at 195 at 5'9 height. I think at 195 now due to the weightlifting I look better than I did at 180, but now if I got to my "old" 180 I'd look "ripped" so that's my goal, get to 180 or high 170s. I've got naturally huge legs, so it might be a genetic advantage for skating, but still, pro skaters like Johnny Wier at my height are like 130lbs, and that'd be a concentration camp weight for me, and I'd have zero athletic performance left at that weight, oh well. I guess as far as the somatypes go, I'm probably a mix of meso-endo, definitely not ectomorph, though.
So, anyway, the Olympic lifts and squats and deadlifts are pretty much for ice skating. I don't really work out for bodybuilding. Like it's just not something I really "get" as was discussed in the "abs" thread here. I'd like to be lean, but as far as really specific muscle definition or whatever, it doesn't matter to me. I'll look how I look. But the squats, deadlifts and Olympic lifts VERY much help skating. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzFGzsn6Skg Those jumps require a LOT of explosive power, figure skating is a crazily athletic sport, despite popular opinion saying otherwise. Me lifting, I don't have money for the coaching/ice time I'd like, so to compensate, I figure power is sorta "free" if that makes sense. So some people think I'm a better skater than I am just due to the amount of power I have, as the power I have for skating is almost as good (or maybe is as good) as people who've been skating significantly longer than me. They've gotten their power "naturally" by just skating a ton of years, but I've sorta cheated it I guess. Just in my case, I'd like to be leaner, as it's power to weight ratio. Also being leaner does look cooler at the beach/pool/etc. But I don't know, I find squats/deadlifts/Olympic lifts just fun to do, Olympic lifts especially have an OCD technique aspect to them, and it's pretty much as hard learning those correctly as learning figure skating moves. So they're fun on their own. Also, too, with OL lifting, my dad used to do it, and I wanna beat his records, you know, gotta exceed your father, you know? That, and the overhead presses/jerks/etc, if I ever get into pair skating, all the holds and whatnot, yeah. First time I saw a competitive pair skater at my rink, I was like "Holy f**k, he's Zangief from Street Fighter" the way he'd be able to pick up his partner and hold her over his head...on ice.
As far as diet, well, so far adding more fat/cholesterol seems to be working out well. I'm not OCD regarding carbs, as in, I eat some throughout the day, but yeah, eating more fat works well for me, as far as keeping me less hungry. I've even tried vegan diets with a lot of carbs for a week or so at a time, and it just didn't work. I know one guy who eats like 4000 calories a day of mostly carbs, and he's super lean (and recommended such a diet to me), but that kinda thing doesn't work for me. I think most "hard gainers" problem is they suck at eating. I'm awesome at eating, haha.
As far as supplements, it depends. Most things in this world are unnatural. Typing stuff on Wrongplanet is unnatural. Most of the supps I want, are pretty natural. I'd really like to try Rhodiola Rosea and maybe Maral Root. Most of what I want is just herbs/herb extracts, but I'd preferably get the whole herbs and just make tea or whatever. As far as creatine, lots of whey protein, etc, kinda not smart in my opinion. Whey protein isn't bad really, though, but suggestions of taking like 300+ grams of protein a day seem asinine to me. But I try to solve most things naturally, with herbs, and it seems to work. One thing, I do like stimulants a lot, thus why so much caffeine. I have NVLD, and it helps me get faster mental processing, I probably should be on a ritalin or Adderall, as it helps people with NVLD, but I got no health insurance, so no prescription. So I kinda self medicate with lots of caffeine and other stuff. I just tried synephrine (bitter orange extract) today, and it works well, but it's a bit too jittery for me. But yeah, a lot is just self medicating my NVLD. Like it's weird, I can do hard physical labor all day, if it's just moving stuff or whatever, but social interactions, things that need quick reflexes/fast thinking, I tire myself out more than if I were moving boxes all day or lifting weights at the gym. Especially car work. Working on cars tires me out more than anytime I spend in a gym ever, just because it takes so much mental power. _________________ The world would be such a better place if fish don't have bones. Imagine munching on fish like burgers without having to pin-pick it. - Frank Yang
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Joined: Aug 17, 2006 Age: 39 Posts: 1803 Location: Ontario
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TM
Phoenix
Joined: Feb 04, 2012 Posts: 1372
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:59 pm?? ?Post subject:
1000Knives wrote:
As far as diet, well, so far adding more fat/cholesterol seems to be working out well. I'm not OCD regarding carbs, as in, I eat some throughout the day, but yeah, eating more fat works well for me, as far as keeping me less hungry. I've even tried vegan diets with a lot of carbs for a week or so at a time, and it just didn't work. I know one guy who eats like 4000 calories a day of mostly carbs, and he's super lean (and recommended such a diet to me), but that kinda thing doesn't work for me. I think most "hard gainers" problem is they suck at eating. I'm awesome at eating, haha.
As far as supplements, it depends. Most things in this world are unnatural. Typing stuff on Wrongplanet is unnatural. Most of the supps I want, are pretty natural. I'd really like to try Rhodiola Rosea and maybe Maral Root. Most of what I want is just herbs/herb extracts, but I'd preferably get the whole herbs and just make tea or whatever. As far as creatine, lots of whey protein, etc, kinda not smart in my opinion. Whey protein isn't bad really, though, but suggestions of taking like 300+ grams of protein a day seem asinine to me. But I try to solve most things naturally, with herbs, and it seems to work. One thing, I do like stimulants a lot, thus why so much caffeine. I have NVLD, and it helps me get faster mental processing, I probably should be on a ritalin or Adderall, as it helps people with NVLD, but I got no health insurance, so no prescription. So I kinda self medicate with lots of caffeine and other stuff. I just tried synephrine (bitter orange extract) today, and it works well, but it's a bit too jittery for me. But yeah, a lot is just self medicating my NVLD. Like it's weird, I can do hard physical labor all day, if it's just moving stuff or whatever, but social interactions, things that need quick reflexes/fast thinking, I tire myself out more than if I were moving boxes all day or lifting weights at the gym. Especially car work. Working on cars tires me out more than anytime I spend in a gym ever, just because it takes so much mental power.
The whole "high carb" thing works for some people, but they need a high carb tolerance and a very active lifestyle. I have relatives that eat tons of carbs and do not put on weight, me on the other hand, I can put away half a cow and not put on a gram and look at a piece of cake and go up 2 pants sizes.
I'm currently ingesting about 250g of protein per day along with creatine, fish oil, fat burners and a few things I don't really know what are and its working nicely for me except for one bad workout.
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1000Knives
Lonely Rolling Star
Joined: Jul 09, 2011 Age: 21 Posts: 1877
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:05 pm?? ?Post subject:
TM wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
As far as diet, well, so far adding more fat/cholesterol seems to be working out well. I'm not OCD regarding carbs, as in, I eat some throughout the day, but yeah, eating more fat works well for me, as far as keeping me less hungry. I've even tried vegan diets with a lot of carbs for a week or so at a time, and it just didn't work. I know one guy who eats like 4000 calories a day of mostly carbs, and he's super lean (and recommended such a diet to me), but that kinda thing doesn't work for me. I think most "hard gainers" problem is they suck at eating. I'm awesome at eating, haha.
As far as supplements, it depends. Most things in this world are unnatural. Typing stuff on Wrongplanet is unnatural. Most of the supps I want, are pretty natural. I'd really like to try Rhodiola Rosea and maybe Maral Root. Most of what I want is just herbs/herb extracts, but I'd preferably get the whole herbs and just make tea or whatever. As far as creatine, lots of whey protein, etc, kinda not smart in my opinion. Whey protein isn't bad really, though, but suggestions of taking like 300+ grams of protein a day seem asinine to me. But I try to solve most things naturally, with herbs, and it seems to work. One thing, I do like stimulants a lot, thus why so much caffeine. I have NVLD, and it helps me get faster mental processing, I probably should be on a ritalin or Adderall, as it helps people with NVLD, but I got no health insurance, so no prescription. So I kinda self medicate with lots of caffeine and other stuff. I just tried synephrine (bitter orange extract) today, and it works well, but it's a bit too jittery for me. But yeah, a lot is just self medicating my NVLD. Like it's weird, I can do hard physical labor all day, if it's just moving stuff or whatever, but social interactions, things that need quick reflexes/fast thinking, I tire myself out more than if I were moving boxes all day or lifting weights at the gym. Especially car work. Working on cars tires me out more than anytime I spend in a gym ever, just because it takes so much mental power.
The whole "high carb" thing works for some people, but they need a high carb tolerance and a very active lifestyle. I have relatives that eat tons of carbs and do not put on weight, me on the other hand, I can put away half a cow and not put on a gram and look at a piece of cake and go up 2 pants sizes.
I'm currently ingesting about 250g of protein per day along with creatine, fish oil, fat burners and a few things I don't really know what are and its working nicely for me except for one bad workout.
Going off your advice, though, I found lots of times where I thought I was "protein deficient" I was actually just fat/cholesterol deficient. I mean the extra protein is cool, but yeah.
EDIT, the synephrine I tried while cool feeling, gave me a headache. So I guess I can't take it. Try rye bread, though, it's better imo as far as "feel" goes, less insulin spike, etc. _________________ The world would be such a better place if fish don't have bones. Imagine munching on fish like burgers without having to pin-pick it. - Frank Yang
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