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10 Tips to Maximize Sauna Training Benefits and Spike Race Performance
By Jim Thornton
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What are the roots of sauna benefits? There's a reason that Spartan CEO Joe De Sena regularly incorporates sessions in his Clearlight Sauna into his unbreakable training regimen. So what can you gain from spending time in an infrared heating system like his?
Let's start with this: Getting into great shape provides all kinds of physiological benefits, from stronger muscles to greater cardiac efficiency. A less obvious but equally critical boost? Better heat tolerance. This allows us to perform better, even in sweltering temperatures (hello, Abu Dhabi), but it also helps us better deal with internally generated heat, as up to 75% of the energy from muscle contractions comes in the form of heat, not productive work.
What Are the Benefits of Sauna Sessions in Your Training?
Heat tolerance is a benefit of sauna sessions, and you increase it by exercising vigorously in the heat (though this can be dangerous when temperature and humidity levels soar). Fortunately, researchers may have found a new way to acclimatize passively, if not entirely painlessly: post-workout sauna training.
Related: 3 Benefits of Infrared Saunas (and How to Use Them)
Lance Armstrong got his edge from EPO, which increases blood volume and supposedly enhances performance. And as it turns out, you can boost yours naturally ... in the sauna.
Sauna Benefits for Endurance Athletes
"The evidence that sauna use can significantly enhance endurance is very strong," exercise physiologist Stacy T. Sims, Ph.D., an adjunct researcher at Stanford University's Prevention Research Center, says. "Our current interest stems from the old-school use of sauna exposure by cross-country skiers, pro cyclists, and other endurance athletes. Their mostly European coaches would have them sit in the sauna post training to help with recovery and sweating capabilities."
How Sitting in a Sauna Triggers Natural Performance Enhancement
Such traditional explanations of sauna benefits might play some role, but Sims and her colleagues suspect that there's a more potent reason that sauna heat fires up sports performance.
As the sauna gradually warms up our core temperature, she explains, sensors in our brains trigger sweating to keep us from parboiling. Sweating in a sauna, of course, doesn't do much to cool us, but it does have a secondary effect. Because the liquid in sweat comes mainly from blood plasma, the more we drip, the more dehydrated and difficult to pump our blood becomes. This decreases oxygen tension in the kidneys, triggering the release of a natural hormone called erythropoietin (EPO) which, in turn, stimulates red blood cell production and increases blood volume.
Related: 10 Things You Didn't Know Hydration Could Do for Your Brain and Body
What Is EPO?
Chances are you've heard of EPO before. Synthetic forms have long been used medicinally to treat serious health conditions like anemia. Lance Armstrong admitted to taking it, too, despite its ban by World Anti-Doping Agency for being an illegal blood doper.
But boosting your own body's supply naturally is entirely kosher. In fact, most athletes do this — at least to some extent — during our workouts, thanks to dehydration. Some sports, of course, are legendary for their dehydrating potential. Marathon runners, for instance, have been known to lose more than 1.5 gallons of sweat — and 10% of their body weight — during summer races. It's not only prolonged endurance exercise in a hot environment that causes it, either. Swimmers sweat, too (even though it's hard to see them do it), and the water doesn't even have to be particularly warm.
For a study in Science & Sports, for instance, competitive male swimmers agreed to race a 5K three different times in different pool temperatures. When the water was a stifling 90 ̊F, the swimmers lost up to 3.5 pints of sweat per hour; at a comfortable 80 ̊F, the rate was still nearly 2.5 pints; and even at a chilly 73 ̊F, they lost up to 1.6 pints per hour.
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Why does losing water weight mid-event matter?
"One of the primary factors in endurance muscle fatigue is this drop in blood volume," Sims explains. "Sauna training helps counter this by increasing EPO and, through this, both plasma volume and red blood cell count. It can be super-beneficial for any endurance athlete.
"Think of it as another natural ergonomic aid in your arsenal, one that can provide a 2 to 3 percent boost in performance."
To maximize the benefit, Sims has developed a protocol to use before any major event likely to challenge you to your limits. Make sure to check with your doctor first, especially if you take medications (including NSAIDs like ibuprofen or naproxen, which reduce blood flow through the kidneys) or suffer hypertension, kidney problems, or other serious health problems.
10 Ways to Maximize Sauna Benefits
Begin sauna training at least two weeks before your event.
Soon after each daily workout, enter the sauna set to 185 to 195 ̊F.
Try not to drink anything before or during your time in the sauna. (The point is to increase dehydration.)
If you need a break, get out briefly, pour cold water on your neck and tongue, then return.
Stay seated and don't exercise. Passive sauna bathing alone will increase your resting heart rate to 140 to 150 beats per minute (or faster).
Many younger adults can gradually work up to 30 to 35 minutes exposure per session, but older folks may need to cut this time in half.
Never remain in the sauna if you start to feel sick. Do not become competitive with yourself or others.
After exiting the sauna, resist the urge to gulp water. Instead, sip fluids gradually over the next 3 to 4 hours.
Repeat the above every day for at least a week, even on rest days.
One week before your event, stop sauna training completely and let your system recover and rebound. This will maximize the increase in blood volume and set you up for enhanced performance on the big day.
Final note: You can maintain EPO's benefits for up to six weeks by taking a long sauna once every 10 days.
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Jim Thornton
Jim Thornton is a National Magazine Award–winning freelance writer living in Pittsburgh.
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Q: How to make footer component constant through out the whole site in AEM? The site structure is as like this in my aem project.
For the footer component i am using following code :-

${child}

                        ${subpage.title}

When i am in the home page it takes it as current page in the first line of the code and displays the site hierarchy in the footer perfectly as this
But when i am in a inner page( here explore page) it takes it as currectPage and displays the footer  as this which i dont want . i want it to be constant through out the whole site. How to make it constant?

A: You can create a Java Use Object (for example Footer.java that allows you to always get the correct root page for your website. You can then invoke it like:
data-sly-use.footer="Footer" data-sly-repeat="${footer.rootPage.listChildren}"

A: It is solved. Had to create a helper class to find the correct root.
File :Footer.java

package com.csmpl.bbsr.me.core.models;

import java.util.*;
import java.util.Iterator;
import com.day.cq.wcm.api.Page;
import com.day.cq.wcm.api.PageFilter;

import com.adobe.cq.sightly.WCMUsePojo;

public class Footer extends WCMUsePojo{
    private List<Page> items = new ArrayList<Page>();
    private Page rootPage;

    // Initializes the navigation
    @Override
    public void activate() throws Exception {
        rootPage = getCurrentPage().getAbsoluteParent(2);

        if (rootPage == null) {
         rootPage = getCurrentPage();
        }

        Iterator<Page> childPages = rootPage.listChildren(new PageFilter(getRequest()));
     while (childPages.hasNext()) {
   items.add(childPages.next());
     }
    }

    // Returns the navigation items
    public List<Page> getItems() {
        return items;
    }
    // Returns the navigation root
    public Page getRoot() {
        return rootPage;
    }
}

Then had to access the class in the footer's htl like:

${child}

                        ${subpage.title}

And it worked. Hope it helps. :)

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Prospectus Hit and Run: Duke Snider, 1926-2011
Jay Jaffe
On Sunday, the baseball world learned of the passing of Duke Snider, who made his name for the Brooklyn Dodgers at a time when New York was the center of the baseball world, with its three teams each boasting a future Hall of Fame center fielder. "Snider, Mantle, and Mays," wrote the great Red Smith. "You could get a fat lip in any saloon by starting an argument as to which was best."
Born in 1926, which made him more or less five years older than Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, Edwin Donald Snider was the first of the trio to arrive on the major league scene, and the first to depart, but in his heyday, he was the centerpiece of a lineup that dominated the National League. Snider was the top slugger and typical number three hitter in a lineup that included fellow future Hall of Famers Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Pee Wee Reese, the anchor of a team that won five pennants from 1949 through 1956—and could have added two more had it not been for losses on the final days of the 1950 and 1951 seasons.
He was one of Roger Kahn's Boys of Summer, a lovable squad fated to lose to the Yankees in the Fall Classic in four consecutive matchups (one of which, 1947, preceded Snider's arrival as a regular) before "Next Year" finally arrived in 1955. He was the Duke of Flatbush, a prematurely gray-haired nobleman playing in an Ebbets Field bandbox set amid a working-class neighborhood heavy with immigrants of Irish, Italian, and Jewish descent. "He was the perfect hero for an underdog borough and every underdog kid," wrote Jane Leavy in The Last Boy, her recent bio of Mantle.
Born in Compton, California, not far from where the Dodgers would ultimately land upon being uprooted from Brooklyn, Snider was a three-sport letterman at Compton High School. Initially pursued by the Cincinnati Reds, who never made him a firm offer, he signed with the Dodgers for a mere $750 bonus in March 1944 at age 17. Making stops at Newport News, Montreal, and Fort Worth, he displayed ample power, but struck out frequently, and his rise to the majors was delayed by a year spent in the military. He broke camp with the Dodgers in 1947, debuting in the game following Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier, and collecting a single off the Braves' Si Johnson.
Nonetheless, Snider rode the bench for the first half of the season, stuck behind a stockpile of outfielders that included Dixie Walker, Pete Reiser, Carl Furillo, Gene Hermanski, Al Gionfriddo, and even an out-of-position Arky Vaughan in the twilight of his career. Hitting just .258/.279/.318 in 68 plate appearances through July 4, he asked Branch Rickey to send him to the minors so he could play regularly. Impressed by the enlightened youngster's gumption, Rickey agreed to send him to St. Paul, even promising him a quarter share of any World Series money. Snider was recalled in September but was ineligible to play in the World Series, which the Dodgers lost to the Yankees in seven games.
Despite whatever enlightenment he showed Rickey, the young Snider was more than a handful for the Dodgers. The Mahatma attempted to cure the budding slugger of his free-swinging ways in the spring of 1948, forcing him to stand in the batting cage with a catcher and an umpire with instructions not to swing but to learn the strike zone. As legend has it, Snider ended up arguing with the ump. Upon breaking camp with the big club, he again found playing time scarce and was sent to Montreal in mid-May. There he feuded with manager Clay Hopper, who called him "the worst-acting .330 hitter I ever handled." Snider finally returned to Brooklyn in August, bitter at having been bypassed for promotion not once but twice despite a promise from since-ousted manager Leo Durocher. Under Burt Shotton, who had skippered the team in 1947 when Durocher was suspended for gambling, Snider received a long late-season look in center field.
That winter, Rickey traded Reiser (who'd been limited to just 64 games) to the Boston Braves. Furillo had played the bulk of the season in center field, but was shifted to right for the 1949 season, leaving center field open for Snider. He didn't disappoint; playing 146 games, Snider hit .292/.361/.493 with 23 homers, helping the Dodgers win their second pennant in three years. Alas, Snider went just 3-for-21 in the World Series against the Yankees, with eight strikeouts to go atop his league-leading 92 regular-season whiffs.
Snider broke out the following year, homering 31 times and collecting a league-high 199 hits. He made the NL All-Star team for the first time, and ran third in the race for the batting title, with a .321 average to go with his .379 on-base percentage and .553 slugging percentage (the latter fifth in the league). While he still hit 29 homers the following year, he slumped significantly, dipping to .277/.344/.483. Already saddled with a reputation as a problem child due to his temper, he clashed with manager Charlie Dressen, who called the 24-year-old "immature" and "an alibi artist," and suggested the Dodgers might trade him. Snider was dreadful down the stretch as his team blew what remained of the seemingly insurmountable 13 1/2-game lead they once held on the Giants, hitting .191/.283/.255 in September and October. Blamed for the collapse by many a sportswriter, he went to Dodger president Walter O'Malley and suggested a trade. O'Malley refused, telling Snider, "We'll never trade you… We're going to give you all the time you need. I'm not blaming you one bit for losing this pennant."
Reassured, Snider rebounded, hitting .303/.368/.494 the following year—including a searing .355/.373/.607 in September—and helping the Dodgers to another pennant. Though he'd come up a bit short in the power department during the regular season with just 21 homers, Snider bashed four in the seven-game World Series against the Yankees, including the go-ahead blast in Game One. As good as his 10-for-29 effort was, the Dodgers again fell in seven games.
Snider was really just getting started. His home run total doubled to 42 in 1953, the first of five straight seasons he'd reach the 40-homer plateau, an achievement matched by only Babe Ruth and Ralph Kiner at the time. Snider hit a combined .311/.407/.618 during that five-year period, leading the league in slugging percentage twice (1953 and 1956), and in home runs once (1956, with 43); his 207 homers during that five-year span were 10 more than the next-highest total, by Eddie Mathews. In fact, nobody hit more homers in the 1950s than Snider, whose 326 beat out teammate Gil Hodges (310) and Mathews (299).
Snider's sweet left-handed swing was described by Jim Murray as, "level and graceful and pretty. If you put it to music, it would be Beethoven. If you painted it, it would hang in the Louvre." A thing of beauty, it allowed him to wreak havoc in a ballpark that was only 297 feet down the right-field line, with a 40-foot screen beyond which lay Bedford Avenue. He hit .313/.396/.603 during his time at Ebbets Field, with a homer for every 16.7 plate appearances, and an average of 38 per 154 games.
Following a season in which he batted .309/.418/.628 with 42 homers and league-leading totals of 126 runs and 136 RBI, Snider homered four times in the 1955 World Series. His three-run shot off Johnny Kucks in Game Four expanded a 4-3 lead to 7-3, and helped the Dodgers knot the series at two games apiece. His two home runs the following day off Bob Grim helped them take a 3-2 series lead, though it would take the Dodgers until Johnny Podres' Game Seven shutout to finish the job. Snider didn't collect a hit in either of the final games, but he'd already done his part to help the Dodgers finally shed their label as bums.
Alas, Snider lost out to teammate Roy Campanella in that year's NL MVP voting, finishing second by a mere five points. The result may have been due to an error: each player received eight first-place votes, but one ailing writer submitted a ballot with Campanella listed both first and fifth while leaving Snider off his ballot. The first place vote was counted, but the fifth place one was tallied as blank. Had Snider been listed fifth, he would have received six points, enough to give him the award. That was as close as he ever came to winning, though he did have six top ten finishes from 1950-1956.
Even with the Dodgers as a perennial powerhouse, Snider was less than fulfilled. In 1953, at the height of his career—26 years old, making $50,000—he confided to Kahn that he'd prefer a more pastoral pursuit. From a passage in The Boys of Summer:
"Something bothering you, Duke?"
"Something? Everything."
"You're hitting .335."
"I know." The long face fell into a pout. "But it's this whole damn life. You know what I'm gonna do? Get some good acreage. I know a place south of Los Angeles. I'm gonna move there and raise avocados."
"You're kidding."
"I'm not kidding. I dreamed of being a big leaguer once, but that's not it for me anymore. Last fall in the World Series, I'm out there,. Big bat. Seventy thousand watching. Great catch. You know what I'm dreaming then? About being a farmer."
Kahn sat on the conversation for a couple of years before turning it into a piece which ran in Collier's in the spring of 1956, titled, "I Play Baseball for Money—Not Fun," and bearing the bylines of both men. By then, the center fielder had only grown more disillusioned. He'd battled the Flatbush faithful, who booed him during a slump during the 1955 season, amid which he heatedly told sportswriters, "The Brooklyn fans are the worst in the league. They don't deserve a pennant."
On paper, dem's fightin' woids, but as Murray wrote in 1988:
Duke once took to the public prints in a moment of pique to denounce the fans of Brooklyn as undeserving of the Dodgers. There was a time when this would have been true. Nobody deserved the Dodgers of the 1930s, who were a happy-go-lucky bunch of foul-ups whose specialty seemed to be passing each other on the basepaths. The fans of Brooklyn forgave the Duke. They liked their ballplayers cantankerous and unpredictable. They left seriousness of purpose to the Yankees.
The Dodgers left Brooklyn following the 1957 season, and while Snider may have had reason to rank among those happiest about the move, he was flummoxed by the unorthodox dimensions of the Los Angeles Coliseum. As I described it in It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over:
The Coliseum was as different as could be from the intimate bandbox of Ebbets Field. With ground for Dodger Stadium unbroken until mid-September—the '59 season would see a stormy battle over the team's deal with the city to acquire Chavez Ravine—the team was consigned to a massive 93,000-seat facility built in 1923 for University of Southern California football games. The field was asymmetrical; while dead center field was a relatively normal 420 feet away, the right-field line was just 300 feet, and right-center stretched to 375 feet (reduced from an astounding 440 feet after 1958, much to Snider's benefit). Left field was another thing entirely, just 251 feet from home plate, with a 40-foot screen only partially helping to compensate… In 1958, of the 193 homers hit in the Coliseum, 166 of them went to left field, 18 went to center, and just nine went to right. With the new dimensions in 1959, 115 out of 172 shots went to left field.
Snider hit .312/.371/.505 in 1958, albeit with just 15 homers and drastic splits: .294/.335/.441 with six homers at the Coliseum, .331/.407/.573 with nine homers elsewhere. With more favorable dimensions, he rebounded to 23 homers and a .308/.400/.535 line in 1959, and the Dodgers did as well, shaking off an atypical seventh-place finish to outlast the Giants and Braves in a three-way race which included a sweep of the latter in a best-of-three playoff series.
The Dodgers won the 1959 World Series over the White Sox, but Snider strained his knee and started just three of the six games. The injury lingered and affected his swing, and his career began its downward slide. He played three more seasons with the Dodgers, and while showing he could still hit (.272/.383/.526 combined), he averaged just 249 plate appearances per year. In 1963, he was sold to the Mets, a dreadful expansion team in their second year of existence, but one stocked with former teammates Hodges, Roger Craig and Charlie Neal, and managed by Casey Stengel, himself a Brooklyn alum—though more famously, the skipper of the Bronx teams that had tormented Snider. Amid a 111-loss season, Snider provided some highlights by collecting his 400th homer and 2,000th hit. Wishing for one final season on the west coast, he was sold to the Giants prior to the 1964 season, and played out the string in relatively ignominious fashion, hitting .210 with four homers.
Despite his youthful take-it-or-leave-it view of the game, Snider stayed in baseball after his playing days were done, and even though he'd gotten his acreage in Fallbrook, California, the "Avocado Capital of the World." He spent 1965 through 1967 managing in the Dodgers' minor-league chain, just prior to the great wave of draft choices which would fuel the franchise's return to prominence in the '70s; he would later manage in the Padres' organization as well. He also returned to Montreal, initially pulling double duty as a hitting coach on manager Gene Mauch's staff, and as a color man in the broadcast booth alongside 2010 Frick Award recipient Dave Van Horne. Forced to choose between the two jobs, he chose the microphone and went on to spend 14 seasons with the Expos in the latter capacity.
During that stint, Snider was elected to the Hall of Fame, although it was hardly as automatic as one might have expected for an eight-time All-Star consistently mentioned in the same breath as Mays and Mantle. In fact, his was an arduous, Blyleven-esque climb to Cooperstown. Snider hit the ballot in 1970 but received just 17 percent of the vote, the lowest debut percentage of anyone subsequently elected to the Hall since the modern system of annual balloting began in 1966. He didn't top 30 percent until his fifth turn in 1974, didn't cross the 50 percent rubicon until 1977, and finally gaining entry in 1980 after falling 16 votes shy the year before, as Mays was gaining first-ballot entry. Interestingly enough, it wasn't until after Snider's election, during the 1981 players' strike, that Terry Cashman's "Talkin' Baseball" immortalized the triumvirate in song.
While the great debate regarding Willie, Mickey, and the Duke raged during their careers, particularly during the four-year period after Mays returned from the military, BP's advanced metrics put Snider far behind the other two in terms of both career and peak value, and below the JAWS standard for center fielders:
Mays
Average HoF CF
Snider loses ground to both due to the favorable hitting conditions of Ebbets Field, the relative brevity of his career (258 fewer games than Mantle, 849 fewer than Mays, and just 486 total after his age-32 season), and to our system's relatively low opinion of his defense, one that hardly jibes with the descriptions of his grace afield. "He played center field as if he owned it," wrote Murray. "Duke ran up walls, dived in the grass and never even seemed to get his uniform dirty."
Al Stump's epic 1955 SPORT profile describes Snider's wall-climbing catch against the Phillies in 1954, which some hailed as better than Mays' legendary World Series catch. The article features a flattering comparison of Snider to another center field great:
Smaller, lighter off-the-wall operators, like Paul Waner, Mel Ott, Dom DiMaggio, and Clyde Milan have made defensive baseball history, but among the big men there have been few with the catlike qualities of the thickly muscled Duke. "He's an acrobat, the same as Mays," Ralph Kiner says, "but with the difference that he scrambles only when it's necessary. Mays looks like a man in a revolving door. I'd say Duke covers more ground, wastes less motion and is more consistent than anyone since DiMaggio. And in playing the real tough ones, he's very close to Joe."
Other statistical systems view Snider's fielding more favorably. Bill James' Win Shares system grades him as an A- center fielder, part of the basis via which he ranked Snider sixth all-time in the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. Baseball-Reference's version of WAR puts Snider just 2.1 wins below average for his career, after taking a big defensive hit upon moving to the Coliseum.
In any event, Snider has his plaque in Cooperstown, his place in baseball history as the home run king of the 1950s and the Dodger franchise's all-time leader at 389, and his spot in the hearts of millions of fans. As Dodger Thoughts' Jon Weisman put it, "The Duke is iconic, a legacy carved in granite." He'll be missed.
NYYanks826
I hate to admit that even though I am far too young to have seen Duke Snider play, I am still a nearly life-long New Yorker whose knowledge of Duke was inexcusably limited. This article simultaneously helped to educate me, and proved to be a fitting tribute to an accomplished ballplayer and individual. Thanks, Jay.
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tmangell
Jay, writing like yours keeps me a BP subscriber. I knew your article would be a great synopsis of the Duke's career and HOF case, and I wasn't disappointed. While new additions to BP contribute goofy articles about fan sexual fantasy writing, your great analysis and writing style is the standard the new hires should aim for. Looking forward to your review of Jim Edmonds' career (if you haven't already posted it) and his HOF chances. Does Jimmy Baseball's CV mirror the Duke's?
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jjaffe
Thanks for the kind words. I tackled Edmonds at length last spring (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=9974) and hadn't planned another standalone update. I now have him at 74.8/51.6/63.2, which is above the JAWS standard, but I remain skeptical of his chances in part because he leaves with just 1,949 hits - no hitter whose career took place entirely in the post-1961 expansion era has been elected with less than 2,000.
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njpeacenik
I saw Duke play and he was as great as the stories suggest. As to the Snider/Mays/Mantle argument, it is obvious that Mantle and Mays were better. But how about when they all played in NYC? I don't think there was as much of a gap during those years in the early and mid-50's.
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I think it's certainly underappreciated is how much older Snider was than the other two. He was the first to arrive, the first to become a star, and peaked as they were still emerging, making him the standard against the other two were judged. But he declined early, and they surpassed him with several great seasons in the Sixties, not to mention considerable longevity. If you allow for the difficulty in historical measures of defense, the gap between them during their 1954-1957 overlap was smaller than it was over the course of their careers.
Over at Pinstriped Bible, I've got a few more thoughts about Snider regarding his early peak relative to Mantle and Mays, his home road splits, and some insight from the great, underappreciated John Lardner: http://www.pinstripedbible.com/2011/02/28/a-few-more-thoughts-on-duke-snider/
doncoffin
"Snider loses ground...due to the favorable hitting conditions of Ebbets Field..." Baseball Reference has Ebbets as relatively neutral (multi-year park factors between 102 and 105) from 1949 to 1955), with only 1956 & 1957 (both with park factors of 109) showing much in the way of a strongly favorable environment for hitters. (Park factors for pitchers are similar, between 98 and 102 until 1956/57, when they jump to unfavorable for pitchers.) I'll admit this surprised me a good deal, but, in the 1950s, the other parks were generally not paradises for pitchers (Crosley, the Polo Grounds, Wrigley, and so on).
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Right, and Yankee Stadium was a pitcher-friendly park with factors in the 93-95 range for most of Mantle's carer (headed towards neutral in his last few years), while the Polo Grounds was more or less neutral during Mays' years (99-101) and Candlestick was more often than not below 100. B-Ref's AIR stat (in the Advanced Batting section of each hitter page), which is kind of like a park factor with historical league scoring rates thrown in as well puts Mantle at 95, Mays at 99, and Snider at 107. So scoring in Mantle's parks was cut by five percent, and in Snider's boosted by seven percent. That's a big difference.
PBSteve
Consider that in 13 postseason games at Ebbets, facing very good pitching, Mantle hit five home runs in 54 at-bats, so it's not hard to see him as being an annual 50-homer guy in that park. Mays had 28 home runs in 248 career at-bats there, slugging .786. I don't care what the indexes say--it's pretty clear that Ebbets played smaller for them than did their home parks.
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Yeah, that's why the park factors listed surprised me. The late 1950s ones seemed more reasonable...
tinseltown
Duke was wonderful broadcaster for the Expos, telling great stories as a colour commentator, and fully capable of handling play-by-play (the Expos broadcast always had Duke doing a portion solo). He typically ended his praise for someone with the phrase "... and that's not too shabby," a nice familiar touch that underlined his warmth. I'm glad so many will remember him fondly and wish his family the best.
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nosybrian
I remember the Duke playing in the L.A. Coliseum in ca. 1958 or 1959. IIRC he was playing left field. And despite the short fence (251") the Duke made a play in which he lazily came in for a high flyball -- and dropped it, I mean it practically missed his glove. Unfortunately, this is the main impression I had of Snyder in action. Just didn't see the effort, the commitment. But perhaps, as you've noted, he was playing hurt at that time.
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*sorry about the typo -- Snider, not Snyder....
And 251', not ". Of course that was the era in which left-hand batter Wally Moon would slap high flyballs over the 41-foot high left field fence. He didn't hit a lot of them, but the L.A. Times came to using headlines each time referring to them as "Moon Shots."

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The agency says in a statement it has received numerous complaints "from consumers who have suffered significant distress, inconvenience, and financial harm" due to SIM swapping and port-out fraud. And, the FCC said, recent data breaches have exposed customer information that could make it easier for bad actors to carry out these kinds of attacks successfully.
SIM swapping is when someone hijacks your cell phone number so they can intercept two-factor authentication codes — the ones you use to verify a log-in or account access — to gain access to your account information. Typically, a bad actor is able to convince their victim's cell phone carrier to transfer service to a different device, which the victim doesn't have access to, but the bad actor does.
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In most instances, if the bad actor has access to a piece of personal identifying information, they can pull off either (or both) of these scams before the victim realizes what has happened.
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HDR - Confirmation of Candidature Procedures
Section 1 - Overview
Criteria for Passing Confirmation
Panel Membership
Panel Meetings
Decisions of the Panel
Communicating the Outcome
Signing the Confirmation of Candidature Report
Non-Confirmation and Appeal
Authority and Compliance
(1) The University of New England is committed to maintaining its strong research culture, underpinned by high research training standards. The Confirmation of Candidature Procedures provide the rigorous processes that are essential for the maintenance of academic quality and integrity in the University's operations, and that reflect the University's values of providing a formative, respectful, inclusive, flexible and innovative environment for the delivery of high-quality research training for its Students.
(2) These Procedures apply to all Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Students who are required by their respective degree rules to complete a confirmation of candidature process. These Procedures follow rules set out within the UNE higher degree by research course rules.
(3) These Procedures provide for the completion of the probationary phase of a higher degree by research Student's candidature.
(4) This confirmation of candidature process assesses formally whether or not a Student's candidature can be confirmed.
(5) Accordingly, these Procedures form part of the University's quality assurance processes.
(6) The specific aims of these Procedures are:
To identify early in a Student's candidature any support, intervention and/or guidance necessary for their proceeding successfully to the next major stage of research;
To assess a Student's progress and the Student's academic preparedness to complete the degree;
To provide the Student with an opportunity to demonstrate academic skills appropriate to higher degree by research;
To ensure that the scope, size, structure and complexity of the research program is appropriate to the level of the higher degree by research; and
To help ensure timely and successful degree completion.
(7) Principal Supervisors are responsible for providing HDR Students with an induction early (typically not later than one month after commencement) regarding confirmation of candidature procedures, and the criteria for successful completion of the confirmation process. As a minimum, this induction must include:
the sources of support and guidance and their location;
the timeframe when the confirmation process will be held (ideally with an estimated date);
the composition of the Confirmation Panel (by role, not necessarily by name);
how the Panel will conduct the process;
the criteria that are required to successfully complete confirmation;
the importance of confirmation as a major milestone in candidature; and
the consequences of not passing confirmation.
(8) The Principal Supervisor will provide a record of the induction, including the Research Degree Supervision Agreement to the HDR Student and the Panel.
(9) Confirmation of candidature will usually be completed six (6) months, and not later than twelve (12) months after start of candidature.
These criteria may be adopted by Schools to an individual Student's circumstances and to those of the research program. All adaptions must be included in the supervisor agreement:
submission of an acceptable research proposal for formal approval before the Confirmation process;
submission of an annotated bibliography or literature review if not already included in the research proposal;
where appropriate, submission of an acceptable research design;
where appropriate, application, or received consent (as appropriate and set down in the supervisor agreement) of ethics approval for the research methodology;
successful completion of any prescribed safety or training courses as detailed in the supervisor agreement;
successful completion of all required coursework units as detailed in the supervisor agreement;
completion of all other required developmental activities (for example, studies in statistics, academic writing, intellectual property and electronic literacy, including use of electronic databases);
completion of an acceptable oral presentation on progress within the research program to the Confirmation Panel; and
submission of a completed, or updated, supervisor agreement with all sections completed, signed off by the candidate and supervisors.
(10) Students from non-English speaking backgrounds may also receive advice at this point on any concerns regarding their demonstrated ability levels in spoken and written English.
(11) Panel Membership will consist of:
Head of School or nominee, or the School HDR Coordinator (Chair);
Principal Supervisor;
Co-Supervisor(s) (if available, but the Principal Supervisor is the minimum requirement);
A representative (who may be internal or external to the University) of the Student's disciplinary area nominated by the Principal Supervisor or Head of School;
Optionally, a person invited by the Student as an aide;
The Panel may co-opt additional expertise as required.
(12) Conduct of the Panel Meeting:
The Student must have formal notice not later than twenty Working Days prior to the Panel meeting. This notice shall include the day, time, location and membership of the Panel.
Although a formal notice is provided to the Student, it is assumed the date will have been negotiated well in advance (and forewarned by the Principal Supervisor). If, however, a Student cannot attend the Panel meeting, the Panel may elect to offer an alternate date and/or an alternate method for attendance (such as video-conferencing). The Panel's decision on alternate arrangements is final.
Typically, the Panel will conduct an oral examination of the Student's submission for confirmation of their program to date.
The Student's aide may be present to offer any personal or moral support, but shall not have any speaking rights except at the Chair's discretion, which is final.
A Student may request the rescheduling of the Panel if for any reason the Principal Supervisor is not able to attend.
(13) The decisions available to the Panel are:
Candidature is confirmed without conditions;
Candidature is not confirmed until certain conditions are met, with a specified timeline;
Candidate is asked to redo confirmation;
Candidature is not confirmed and a recommendation is made by the School to the Graduate Research Subcommittee that candidature be terminated.
(14) Decisions under (13)b may not require a second meeting, however, the Chair of the Panel is responsible for consulting all Panel members regarding whether or not the Student has met the conditions for confirmation.
(15) Decisions under (13)c shall require reconvening the original Panel, which must be held no later than two months after the first meeting. Only under exceptional circumstances and by agreement of the Head of School (illness of the Student, or a Panel member, for example) will the Panel be allowed to defer again the decision or have original Panel members substituted:
Decisions under Clause (13)c shall only be made when there is a reasonable prospect that the Student can meet the confirmation criteria if granted extra time. Deferment when there is no realistic prospect of success is unfair to the Student and any sponsor.
(16) Only when a Student has met all the confirmation criteria is candidature confirmed. Students under Clauses (13)b and (13)c remain probationary Students. Supervision and research work must continue as normal until the confirmation of candidature is resolved.
(17) Where the Panel cannot reach a satisfactory decision, the matter may be referred to the Head of School for determination.
(18) Students who decline (including without acceptable explanation, failing to attend an induction or the Panel meeting) to engage with the confirmation process at any time shall be deemed to have not met the confirmation criteria and will be recommended for termination of candidature under Clause (13)d.
(19) Whatever the decision of the Confirmation of Candidature Panel, the School will communicate the outcome to the Student within ten (10) working days of the final decision being made. The Student and Principal Supervisor will be provided with a copy of the Confirmation of Candidature Report, signed by all parties.
(20) Where a Student elects not to sign the Confirmation of Candidature Report, this should be noted on the report by the Chair of the Panel.
(21) The following will apply:
Where the Panel has taken the decision not to confirm a Student's candidature, and once the Student has been notified of this outcome by the School, the completed Confirmation of Candidature Report will be forwarded to Research Services. Within five (5) Working Days of receipt of the School's recommendation to terminate candidature, Research Services will write to the HDR Student, with a copy to the School HDR Coordinator and Principal Supervisor, advising the Student of their rights of appeal, which will be:
The decision of the School can be appealed to the Graduate Research Subcommittee;
The decision of the Graduate Research Subcommittee can be appealed to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, whose determination will constitute the final institutional determination of the matter;
Any avenues of appeal to external agencies;
Appeal the NSW Ombudsman on matters of process only.
In writing to appellants, Research Services will include a copy of the completed Confirmation of Candidature Report, a summary of the reasons why this decision has been reached, any further option for appeal, and information about where to get advice and support.
Student Visa Holder's must not have their candidature terminated until all avenues of appeal are exhausted.
All Students in the process of appeal will continue to work and be supervised as normal until the outcome of the final appeal is known.
Once the final appeal has been processed, and where the Student appeal is unsuccessful, Research Services will terminate the Student's candidature in the relevant Student administrative systems. Research Services will notify the Student, Principal Supervisor and School HDR Coordinator In Writing and, in the case of Student Visa Holder's, notify UNE International.
(22) The Procedure Administrator, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, makes these Procedures.
(23) Higher Degree by Research Students must observe these Procedures in relation to University matters.
(24) These Procedures operate as and from the Effective Date.
(25) Previous Procedures relating to Confirmation of Candidature are replaced and have no further operation from the Effective Date of this new Procedure.
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Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
Location: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,
Postby amit » 10 Oct 2015 07:56
Maybe CRamS should realize that if 67 per cent of Indians who didn't vote for Modi want to give Kashmir to the Pakistanis then it no longer remains a "traitorous" thing to do? After all in that scenario the vast majority of Indians would be in agreement.
Of course small incidental stuff like the fact that almost all reports of joint sovereignty and India agreeing to it is from impeccable Paki sources such as Musharaff and that what's his name foreign minister who was a batch mate of that idiot MSA and wants to sell a book in India to make some money don't really matter. Why bother with facts. The Sky is Falling, the Sky is Falling - see Momma only I can prevent that from happening!
The Chinese have their 50 centers and we have CRamS. Sigh!
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Postby CRamS » 10 Oct 2015 07:57
Guys, I have a question. If I am correct, the majority opinion here is that Eng language news channels are not that representative of the popular sentiment, especially when it comes to Pakis. On this Ghulam Ali tamasha, what is the general buzz in the Hindi and other vernacular media (I doubt in the Southern vernacular news media if this was discussed). Reason I ask is because the Eng news media is overwhelmingly of the opinion that Shiv Sena blocking Ghulam Ali concert is dada giri (I disagree), and across political lines, even BJP spokesman keep repeating this mantra that they were for hosting Ghulam Ali and other cultural contacts and they disagree with Shiv Sena. Very few take the line, which is the line I like, say that its unfortunate that well meaning folks have to suffer but thats the reality of the situation, namely, when Pakis are brazenly killing our people, and even these so called cultural ambassadors have never spoken out (except for doing an equal equal, I have not heard Paki "civil society" unequivocally condemn Paki use of terror as state policy), having pee pee contact of any kind is sacrilegious to those martyred from Paki perfidy.
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Postby A_Gupta » 10 Oct 2015 08:00
Gagan wrote: Hi Arun,
That is excellent work. I have this panchh varshiya yojna to learn a new language every few years. But somehow it never materializes.
Ha! You need a Niti Aayog yojna, then you'll get somewhere
CRamS do you understand the meaning (forget for the time being about the importance) of having a free Press? You have lived in the US for, as you have claimed, for more than 20 years and you are citizen of that country. So you know exactly the kind of stuff that goes on air there. In India the same happens. Your question on whether the entire English language media iz like that onlee is symptomatic of your binary and simplistic world view. The Indian media, like the media of your country, has all manner of opinions and views expressed. And again like the media of your country has a lot sensationalism aired for TRP. Learn to live with it. Do your blood pressure good.
Amit, I did not say entire Eng lang media is treacherous. What I asked is if the Eng language media is representative of what the general population feels about hosting the Paki singer? We have debated here the position Eng language media takes on certain paki issues, and contrasted that with Vernacular media's take. I am curious if in this case, there is a dichotomy or not. And that would tell me if those like me who oppose hosting the Paki are a minority or not.
Shiv Sena blocking the Ghulam Ali concert is dada-giri, there can be no two opinions about it. The question is - is this forgivable dada-giri because the mistake was made by whoever organized the concert? Here, even those who think no Pakistani should be invited may answer no, for any number of reasons, including that they are opposed to the Shiv Sena.
ArunK
Postby ArunK » 10 Oct 2015 09:15
Urdu-English cheat sheet uploaded here. Let me know if you have issues accessing it.
Vayutuvan
Postby Vayutuvan » 10 Oct 2015 09:21
Amit: there is one crucial difference between India and the U.S. All media in U.S. Is English. In India the ELM is understood by 0.1% - heck make it 1%, does not change any thing in practical terms - elite who can speak and understand rhetoric int that language. I posit that ELM is irrelevant in India. They can have their frothing at the mouth on the national (not) TV which would be nth I g but a tree falling in the forest and making a thunderous sound.
Actually I should have used Indian media instead of Indian English language media. My point remains that all manner of views are expressed in Indian media including language media. For example some of the stuff aired in Bengali language TV shows would make CRamS... Well nevermind.
As in any free media it takes all to make it up.
CRamS wrote: Amit, I did not say entire Eng lang media is treacherous. What I asked is if the Eng language media is representative of what the general population feels about hosting the Paki singer? We have debated here the position Eng language media takes on certain paki issues, and contrasted that with Vernacular media's take. I am curious if in this case, there is a dichotomy or not. And that would tell me if those like me who oppose hosting the Paki are a minority or not.
It all comes back to the same thing if the majority of Indians think it's bad/wrong then it is wrong, what you, me or anyone here thinks doesn't count. I suspect, however, the majority couldn't be bothered one way or the other. They have better things to do.
But since you are at it you should also ponder if the 33 percent who voted for Modi ALL think Shiv Sena is right on this one. Do KIV what the Maharashtra CM said.
Postby nandakumar » 10 Oct 2015 10:13
I have got it now. The real Pakistani speak. It goes like this
Music has no borders.
Terrorism has no borders.
Border has no sovereignty
Sovereignty has no borders.
The whole world is mine, to take.
Because Allah has willed it so.
Postby member_28990 » 10 Oct 2015 13:23
A pdf copy of "The Quranic Concept of War" - all understanding of Pak military psyche probably starts from here.
http://onceagreenberet.com/WordPress/pu ... /malik.pdf
Postby shiv » 10 Oct 2015 13:26
nandakumar wrote: I have got it now. The real Pakistani speak. It goes like this
I have shamelessly put this on Twitter with suitable shortening
https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/652769091904651265
ashvin
Postby ashvin » 10 Oct 2015 13:38
^^ Excellent! Succinct and so clear! I am going to send this with the reference (BRF) to everyone I know.
JE Menon
Postby JE Menon » 10 Oct 2015 14:03
^^So have I. Excellent one nandakumar.
Thanks one and all! I have not been a bad student, it would seem, after all these years of learning at the feet of the masters of the Pak thread on this forum.
nandakumar wrote: Thanks one and all! I have not been a bad student, it would seem, after all these years of learning at the feet of the masters of the Pak thread on this forum.
True that NandaKumar, if it weren't for BRF and the people with true gyan I would have never have been able to reverse the deracination I was subjected to and would have been subsumed by the WKK cabal of dhimmis!
^^But we have to speak out, rationally and loudly... everywhere.
Pervez Hoodbhoy on the opposite of rationalism on Pakistani campuses:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1212051/jinns-invade-campuses
"Jinns invade campuses"
The all-pervasive anti-reason, anti-science attitude on our campuses might seem difficult to understand.
Consider the advantages: mental disorders like epilepsy can be understood and cured without bringing in neurosurgeons or clinical psychologists since, of course, it's the jinns at work. A good resident pir or exorcist would do fine. You don't have to learn the messy science of meteorology because jinns make winds. And seismology is useless since earthquakes happen because of our bad deeds.
As for toys and trinkets like computers and cellphones we can, like our Saudi brothers, always buy the best from Apple or Nokia. Some money-hungry Zing-Zang-Zong company will happily run the cellphone networks for Pakistan. The dirty business of technology and inventing things can be safely left to the Chinese, Americans, and Europeans. Their jinns know their job so well.
Falijee
Postby Falijee » 10 Oct 2015 16:05
Army brings in artillery for LoC fight, ready to 'shock' Pakistan
A scrawl by a young army officer on the remnant of a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) fired by Pakistani soldiers on an Indian position captures the mood along the Line of Control (LoC).
"En RPG fired at BT. Why? Inki itni himmat!" it says, with En standing for the word 'enemy' and BT for a post called 'Big Tree'.
Pakistani provocations appear to have compelled India to shed its restraint and pursue a more aggressive approach, evident from the Army lifting a self-imposed restriction on bringing in artillery and commanders on the ground being told to be on the lookout for rogue border action teams (BAT).
Toughening its stance along the troubled border, the Army used 120mm mortars -- held by light artillery regiments -- for the first time in Poonch sector in early September after violations by the Pakistani army peaked in intensity and numbers. HT spotted an artillery battery equipped with these heavy mortars at a post called Forward Defended Locality 490, which was moved closer to the LoC on September 18 as hostilities grew.
"We fired 120mm mortars on two different occasions to good effect," revealed Brigadier Navdeep Brar, commander of Poonch-based 93 infantry brigade. Battalion/ brigade commanders cannot order 120mm mortar fire and the go-ahead has to come from the Northern Army commander in Udhampur. Pakistan, however, uses the destructive weapon freely.
India's response to border violations has been forceful and has seemingly compelled Pakistan to tone down its belligerence. Guns have been silent along the LoC since Indian and Pakistani commanders met at Chakan Da Bagh -- a border trading point on Poonch-Rawalakot road -- on September 21 to reduce rising hostilities that had left the ceasefire in tatters.
But there's always a possibility of BAT raids. Terrorists suspected to be backed by Pakistani special forces form such teams, responsible for Indian soldier Hemraj's gruesome beheading and the cold-blooded murder of five other soldiers in separate cross-border assaults two years ago.
"I have asked battalion commanders to stay ready for BAT raids. It gives us the opportunity to kill them," said Lieutenant General RR Nimbhorkar, commander of the Nagrota-based 16 Corps.
HT visited several forward posts and found the LoC to be tense, but quiet. It may appear to be a good starting point for the upcoming dialogue between the two director generals of military operations for which dates are being worked out. But just for how long the fragile will peace hold is a question commanders find difficult to answer.
"No one knows when the guns start booming again. It can happen tonight, it may happen tomorrow. But they will be in for a shock if they go back to their old ways," said Brigadier HS Sahi, commander, I20 infantry brigade located at Bhimber Gali.
His men defend a 45-km meandering stretch of the LoC and also man positions along the fence behind it, the second tier of the Army's counter-infiltration grid.
UN Dossier needs to be amended now
Postby Avinash R » 10 Oct 2015 16:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0plKRKC0n0
Purelanders migrating to Europe
Postby arun » 10 Oct 2015 16:33
Jhujar wrote: Ashwathama Maara Gya
Reported US-Pak nuclear deal not like the one with India
The deal US is considering with Pakistan to limit its nuclear arsenal in exchange for free access to nuclear material and supplies is very different from the one it has with India.
The US proposal, as reported by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, is to cap Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and delivery systems, tying them to the defence needs regarding India.
In other words, the deal seems designed to cover Pakistan's nuclear arsenal — the warheads — fissile material and production facilities, giving US access to them.In return, the US will facilitate for Pakistan easier access to nuclear material and supplies from the 38-member Nuclear Suppliers Group, which doesn't trade with non-NPT countries.The US nuclear deal with India covers only civilian use facilities, opening them to international inspection. But it does not cover weapons and related processes at all.Pakistan has been seeking a nuclear deal like the one US has with India, arguing for a "non-discriminatory approach on nuclear issues", but hasn't had any success, not until now, it seems.Now, however, the US seems to be moving towards using Pakistan's desire of a deal to cap its weapons programme and delivery systems that had long been an international concern.The White House refused to confirm or deny the Washington Post column saying it doesn't typically comment on internal discussions. But, implicit here, is the absence of denial.
The Post said talks have been on quietly between the US and Pakistan in the run-up to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's coming visit to the US to meet President Barack Obama later this month.
The columnist called the move a "diplomatic blockbuster", but warned progress could be "slow and difficult" as "Pakistan prizes its nuclear program … and it's not clear if Islamabad would be willing to accept the limitations that would be required".A recent study by Carnegie and Stimson Center, both think tanks, suggested Pakistan could go up to 350 in a decade based on its estimation of India's stock of fissile material.Pakistan's nuclear arsenal worries the world given its proliferation history, Abdul Qadeer Khan's nuclear black-market, and growing presence of extremists.But the current move comes, the Washington Post columnist said, in the context of bringing lasting peace to Afghanistan and in recognition of Pakistan's role in it.Pakistan is already one round of talks between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban, in Murree, which was to be the venue for the next round also, but then talks broke down.
US State Department Spokesman on the topic of a civil nuclear deal with the nuclear weapon technology proliferating Islamic Republic of Pakistan:
Daily Press Briefing
October 9, 2015 …………………………………
QUESTION: And finally, is U.S. in talks with Pakistan on a separate civilian nuclear deal?
MR KIRBY: I don't have an update for you on that. Thanks, everybody.
From here:
US State Dept.
Ganja Sharif Not Kept In The Loop By Deep State - Re Mullah Omar's Death ?
PM Nawaz says working for revival of Afghan peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said he is trying to revive peace between the Afghanistan government and Taliban after the latest round of talks was derailed by untimely news of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
"We are now trying to resume the (peace) process and pray to God to crown our efforts with success," Sharif said in televised remarks to the media from Lahore.
"The news of Mullah Omar should not have been broken just before the start of the second round of talks."
So Badmaash wanted to continue the deception and hide Mullah Omar's death in a Karachi Hospital; has not it occurred to him, that Afghan Intelligence was responsible for calling Pakistan's bluff on the same
Afghanistan's deputy army chief this week said Pakistan's military had helped the Taliban to capture Kunduz and Pakistani generals had escaped the city wearing burqas – a claim Pakistan denied.
The rumours of Mullah Omar's ill-health and even demise had regularly surfaced in the past, but Sharif questioned the timing of the announcement in July so close to talks aimed at brokering a ceasefire.
"I don't know who broke this news and why it was done so just two days before the start of the second round, is still a mystery," he said.
New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor called for unity in the movement in his first audio message released August 1.
Mansoor gave mixed signals about the peace process, while vowing to continue jihad to implement Shariah in Afghanistan.
Obviously with the help of the Deep State
Jinn- ology Makes Its Debut On Paki Campusus
Jinns invade campuses
Last week, a workshop titled 'Jinns and Black Magic' was organised in Islamabad by the department of humanities at the COMSATS Institute of Technology (CIIT), one of Pakistan's largest universities. The invited speaker, Raja Zia-ul-Haq, introduced as a 'spiritual cardiologist' is reputedly an expert on demonic possessions and evil spirits. He is popular: a press photograph shows no standing room left in the university's main auditorium.
So Pakistan is on its way to become a first class Jinn Super- Power
What lies next is to be seen. Perhaps CIIT could go for creating a jinn-based telecommunications network. Another promising direction could be radar-evading jinn-powered cruise missiles. Jinn chemistry, a research subject activated in the Ziaul Haq era, could be another growth point. CIIT could also pursue a proposal from the 1970s, initiated by a senior director of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, to replace fossil and nuclear fuels with jinn power.
I presume that the esteemed professor is making reference to Bashiruddin Mahmood, father of Djinn Bomb
Quite accidentally, earlier this year I happened to attend a public lecture given by a professor of humanities at Lums whose specialty is science-bashing. While admitting he knew no physics, he went through the usual stale post-modernist critiques of science and then claimed that the Nobel Prize for physics, awarded to American physicist Robert Millikan in 1923, was undeserved since it was based upon a selective choice of data.
Perhaps to underscore its determination to shift away from Western science, last month Lums ousted Pakistan's most highly regarded and respected mathematical physicist from his tenured position. Fortunately, he loses nothing since Harvard, Princeton, or MIT (from where he received his PhD) will welcome him with open arms.
Maybe, he did not belong to the "right" denomination in La-whore which everyone knows is a hot-bed of Sunni extremism
Conspiracy buffs can expect even more delights now that the famous Zaid Hamid, having successfully dodged his sentence of 1,000 lashes, is back from his months of incarceration in Saudi Arabia. This fiery orator is expected to soon resume his popular campus speaking tours across Pakistan.
So Haz-rat Hamid, being a qualified engineer from Pak's famous engineering university is also a believer in Jinn technology
Not only the Saudi brothers, but the whole Islamic Ummah has "outsourced" the business of science, technology, development etc to Darul-Harb as V.S. Naipul, the famous author, pointed out in his seminal work on the Ummah world; they see no contradiction in enjoying the fruits of western civilization and at the same time, cursing the discoverers.
The newly launched jinn invasion of campuses means that Pakistan's cultural and intellectual decline will accelerate.
Jhujar wrote: The honesty deficit
Modiveni, DovalVidi Indiavici
...............{Snipped}............... The Indians have instead begun to eye what we own. They unabashedly extend their claim to the northern areas and have successfully had international funding for Diamer-Bhasha stalled – claiming it to be 'disputed' territory. Somehow such formulation has missed our attention. Whatever India does on the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab, even within the run-of-the-river construct, also happens to be in a disputed region. Pakistan too must raise sufficient noise to seek parity in treatment; otherwise the certainty of Indian investment already made in permanent structures could alter the case to its advantage were any adjudication sought on the issue. ..................{Snipped}..............
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan tries its luck to tap the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank aka AIIB to fund the Diamer Bhasha Dam. India must ensure that AIIB is prevented from financing any project in Pakistan occupied Jammu & Kashmir. Dawn editorial:
…………………… The old issue raised was the Diamer Bhasha dam. The AIIB chief was asked to provide the financing for investment in this mega project which Pakistan has been pursuing for many years.
Thus far all major multilaterals have balked at funding it, saying that it lies in 'disputed' territory and would, therefore, require India's approval.
It is likely that the real reason for their reluctance lies elsewhere, and it is equally likely that the AIIB will also eventually refuse to fund this project.
For one, India opposes the project and is the second largest shareholder in the bank. For another, the AIIB is unlikely to want to commit to such a vast project with massive uncertainties hanging over it, for fear of being pulled into a quagmire so early in its career.
It would be better for the government of Pakistan to draw up a more realistic list of projects that they would like to see funded through the AIIB, and use the early years of the bank to build a relationship rather than go for broke with a proposal for a mega dam.
There is no shortage of infrastructure requirements in Pakistan, and realism shouldn't be very hard to pitch.
AIIB visit
Postby Gus » 10 Oct 2015 19:51
i am sure there is an industry that is already up and running for making pakis into 'syrian refugees'.
pakis are experts in exploiting these things and inserting people in countries as bizarre as chile etc.
several thousand pakis would have already been through this hole..
Postby sanjaykumar » 10 Oct 2015 20:13
Thank you very much for the effort in the Urdu vocabulary.
Non-Urdu speakers do need to take careful note of the distinction between j and z sounds. The uninitiated pronounce the z as j, but it takes special linguistic skill to pronounce an appropriate j as z.
Resulting in such absurdities as 'jinda zawaan'.
Postby Gagan » 10 Oct 2015 21:18
Yaa
Like Jahil Hamid is correct
Zahil Hamid is not
Postby Peregrine » 10 Oct 2015 21:36
Chinese steel giant offers to pump $778m into PSM
ISLAMABAD: China's largest steel company Sinosteel Corporation has offered an investment of $778 million in revamping and enhancing the production capacity of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) over the next three to four years.
According to the proposed plan, sources said, Sinosteel would invest $778 million in PSM over the next three to four years to give a boost to its output as activity at the mill had slowed down drastically in the face of cash crunch.
In the first phase, Sinosteel will pump $170 million into the steel mill over a period of eight months to take annual output to 1 million tons. In the next phase, it will inject $373 million over a span of 18 months to take production capacity to 2 million tons annually.
In the third phase, it will provide $235 million to push the production of steel and its products to 3 million tons. At present, the mill has the installed capacity to produce 1.1 million tons.
By taking over PSM, according to sources, Sinosteel is not only targeting the Pakistan market to satisfy its growing appetite, but is also eyeing exports to neighbouring countries with the help of Pakistan's ports and land routes.
The management control of PSM seems to be the most feasible investment for Sinosteel as the Chinese market has been largely saturated. This will also help the Chinese government and state-run companies to develop projects under the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in addition to using its own banks and human resource in PSM.
China is setting up a "West Pakistan Company".
US media highlights cancellation of Ghulam Ali's concerts in India
NEW YORK (Staff Report) "I am not angry, I am hurt," US print and electronic media quoted Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali as saying after the cancellation of two of his concerts in India that resulted from threats by Shiv Sena Hindu nationalists.
We came here to share love, Mr. Ali, 75, said, adding, "The atmosphere is not conducive for me to perform." "With its muscular brand of hard-line politics and the sometimes violent protests by its followers, the Shiv Sena has long been a powerful, and feared, presence in Mumbai, the Maharashtra state capital," The New York Times wrote. "Fearing a disruption of Mr. Alis concert, Leo Fernandis, the manager of the venue in Mumbai, Shanmukhananda Hall, said he had asked the organizers to contact the Shiv Sena to reach an agreement, or else the show would be cancelled."
The concerts were scheduled for Friday and Saturday in the cities of Mumbai and Pune. At a news conference in Mumbai on Thursday, Aditya Thackeray, the leader of the Shiv Sena, made it clear that the party objected to the events simply because of Ghulam Ali's nationality.
Equivalent to objection by New Yorkers to an Islamic Institution being built near the site of 9/11
"The migration of political hostilities to the cultural arena is not an entirely new phenomenon cricket tournaments between the two have been called off several times because of tensions," the Times said.
But it called the cancellation of Ghulam Alis events as "notable because he has held many concerts in India over the decades, and he remains very popular here.
Last year, Mr. Ali performed without incident in Mumbai to an almost full house at Shanmukhananda Hall, which has a capacity of just under 3,000."
"In April," the paper said, "Mr. Ali performed at a music festival at a famous Hindu temple in the holy city of Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh State, and paid tribute to a celebrated Indian musician, Bismillah Khan."
The Maharashtra government had promised security for the concerts this week but that assurance was not enough for the organizers or venue owners, it said. "You know the Shiv Sena people, Fernandis, the manager of Shanmukhananda Hall, was quoted as saying.They may throw stones, create other troubles for the show.
Representatives of Panache Media, the Indian company that had organized the events, decided to call off the performances after meeting with Shiv Sena officials, the Times said.
You can enjoy the music only in relaxed atmosphere, Randhir Ranjan Roy, Panache Medias business development manager, was quoted as saying. Regarding Shiv Sena, he said They are not against Ghulam Ali, but they are against Pakistan.
Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit said he regretted the decision. "Our position is very clear, we encourage people-to-people contacts, we encourage our artists to visit both sides and perform," he said.
I.M.F Expresses Concern About C.P.E.C, Which Will Result In More Debt Accumulation ; Pakistan Rubbishes These Concerns
IPR expresses concern over IMF's views on CPEC
* Institution urges government not to allow IMF constrain either the size or pace of CPEC implementation
Lots of economic jargon included in the farticle; but the bottom line being that IMF is cautioning the Pakis they are accumulating debt, left and right, but the so-called IPR is disputing that ; I think a similar caution was being conveyed when this almost insolvent entity successfully floated an Euro Bond recently.
Postby Prem » 10 Oct 2015 22:57
PM Nowaaz invites Syed Ali Geelani to visit Pakistan
De-Hotti Awarat
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has invited Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani to visit Pakistan, the latter's party said on Saturday."Geelani was handed the invitation letter from Sharif by Pakistan High Commissioner in India Abdul Basit over a dinner at the latter's residence at Tilak Marg in Delhi last night," Geelani-led Hurriyet's spokesperson said.Nawaz deemed Kashmir issue as an unfinished agenda of Pakistan's creation, and made it clear that friendly ties between Pakistan and India could not be restored without resolving the issue, the spokesperson added."In the letter, Nawaz said Kashmir is not a border dispute but concerns 'right to self-determination' of 20 million people."He also said Pakistan had made it clear to India there could be no progress on bilateral ties while ignoring the Kashmir issue.""We want good relations with all our neighbours, including India but New Delhi's unrealistic approach has been a big impediment," the spokesperson quoted the prime minister as having stated in the letter.The party said Geelani had in principle accepted the invitation to visit Pakistan but did not mention any specific date for his arrival.
Prepared to have your mind boggled!
This is World Bank Data.
Here is the page:
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERN ... 83,00.html
What is mind-boggling?
According to the World Bank, remittances from Pakistan to India in 2014 amounted to US $ 4.697 billion.
(i.e., by my estimate that is approximately 2% of Pakistan's GDP). In comparison remittances from Oman to India amounted to US $3.471 billion. Remittances from India to Pakistan amounted to US $2.061 billion.
All the data they have
2014 Pakistan-to-India: $4.697 billion, India-to-Pakistan: $2.061 billion
2012 Pakistan-to-India: 0 (yes, zero), India-to-Pakistan: $2.189 billion
2011 Pakistan-to-India: 0, India-to-Pakistan: $1.916 billion
The most reasonable explanation is that the World Bank employed its first Pakistani employee in this remittances estimating division before the 2013 report was released; and the World Bank data is therefore 400% reliable.
The second explanation that this is payment for exports from India masquerading as remittances to families.
The third explanation is that this is capital flight from Pakistan disguised as remittances to families.
A fourth explanation is that Indians in the Gulf started using a Pakistani hawala channel to send remittances to India, so money goes Gulf-->Pakistan-->India. If that is the case, Pakistan's incoming money should show a $4.7 billion jump in 2013 as well. Remittances to Pakistan totaled $14.010 billion in 2012, and $14.626 billion in 2013, and so this incoming cannot be marked as "remittances", it has to be in some other account.
PPS: A fifth explanation to me is this is the inflowing fake Indian currency manufactured in Pakistan.
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Dawood Moving his a$$ets around?
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Postby chaanakya » 10 Oct 2015 23:45
Bakis are facing Freedom fighters from Pakhtuns and Baloch. The Lahori on Newsx was looking very grim when Gen Bakhsi told you are using all weapons in your Army's armoury including F-16 tanks bulldozers to fight civilians seeking freedom. Shaina NC told that pakis future looks very dim. And gen Raghvan told how can we conclude agreement with you when your govt dances to the tue of another insitution with which we can not legally discuss and then you go around meeting hurryrats on their instructions and expect us not to meet pakhtun and baloch freedom fighters where pakistani forces are violating civil and human rights.
I mean what's happening.
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Postby ArmenT » 11 Oct 2015 00:28
What's with the remittances from India to Pakistan? Is it payments for onions, cement, raw cotton etc.?
Postby Prasad » 11 Oct 2015 01:55
Too bad I got to hear about this 'aman ki tamasha' natak too late. Could've asked some like-minded friend to attend and ask some innocent questions. Read for much hilarity - https://twitter.com/ProjPak
Sample -
Very easy to give up what you don't have. the cunning Hindus should suggest Rawalpindi be turned into a peace park.
Give back piggistan too, without the pakis ofcourse, so many people have been killed by the terrorists created from that place. Or POK would work too, no electricity, no water it's pretty much siachen part 2.
Not surprised to see wanna be paki kashmiris joining in the fun, but not sure why the sikh guy is meddling in, especially when so many sikhs were killed in partition and after. Cartoons who talk about piss should be made to stand on the border.
Where was this shitty presentation made? India , piggistan or US? They've given US address so I am assuming it's US.
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Strategically placed landscape area fuel treatments (SPLATs) in the Sierra Nevada were put to the test in this study when the American Fire burned through previously treated areas. Both fire effects and initial post-fire conifer regeneration were investigated.
The objective of this research synthesis was to examine the differences in community level exposures to smoke from both wildfire and prescribed fire.
This paper builds our understand of how the spatial distribution of different ignition sources have varied over time and space.
The authors use this paper to highlight some challenges and solutions in applying TK and western knowledge (WK) to current approaches of wildland fire, fuels, and natural and cultural resource management.
By mastering the art of prescription burning over thousands of years, native California tribes sustainably maximized chaparral ecosystem services like food, medicine, and building materials.
The authors show a direct connection between a diverse set of drivers and type-converted chaparral in Southern California. Example drivers include high frequency fire, land-use disturbance, moisture availability, and site flatness.
Discussions of successes, struggles, and failures with partner-specific tools are vital to the successful implementation of "translational ecology" a formal term for biological conservation partnerships.
Understanding the relative importance of biological and environmental characteristics conducive to a moderate severity wildfire can help managers predict outcomes to better guide when and where fires can safely be managed.
The WUI is often synonymous with fire risk to buildings, but this research suggests that this is not the case in all fire-prone states. While fire outreach was often present near areas where buildings are destroyed by wildfire, many communities are established after major fires.
To revegetate disturbed desert lands, practitioners often reestablish fertile islands as a first step in restoring native plants and associated fauna on disturbed desert sites. This research brief discusses the pros and cons of this approach considering native and non-native species.
Though often inconspicuous, lichens play critical ecological roles in many terrestrial ecosystems. This paper discusses how lichens respond to fire severity and how fast lichens recolonize after fire.
To help managers make science-based decisions that incorporate wildlife information, this study experimentally compared the effects of two pre-fire vegetation reduction treatments (prescribed burning and shrub mastication) on the chaparral bird community.
Smoke cued germination occurs in an incredible diversity of plants in widely separated, fire-prone Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems around the world. This research suggests that convergent evolution might be the explanation.


Whitby Town Football Club is pleased to announce that goalkeeper, Adam McHugh has registered with the club ahead of tonight's North Riding Senior Cup tie with Grangetown Boys Club.
McHugh spent two months on loan with the club from Bishop Auckland, however circumstances at his parent club meant that the gloveman was forced out of the the County Durham side.
The goalkeeper made twelve appearances for the club during his loan spell and will look to add more appearances over the coming weeks, particularly with the on-going injury problems for Jack Norton.
Norton played in Saturday's disappointing 4-1 defeat to Gainsborough Trinity at the Northolme with Chris Hardy aware that he had a goalkeeping issue with Lee Bullock and Josh Nearney being forced into taking goal kicks.
In defence, Hardy will be without the injured Kieran Weledji who is still recovering from his lay-off, however he is expected to be back with the squad in the near future.
Fellow defender, Daniel McWilliams is also ruled out of this cup tie, again due to injury. Like Weledji, Chris Hardy hopes that he will have his left-back returning to the match day squad soon.
Centre-back Alex White is unavailable tonight, as is striker, Matthew Tymon who has work commitments to deal with. Tymon got the Blues off to what looked to be the perfect start on Saturday, scoring after just a minute.
In terms of attacking options, the Seasiders' boss is delighted to finally welcome Ashley Coffey to his match day line-up. Coffey joined the club from Marske United in the summer, but injury has meant that the young forward has been unable to feature for his new club.
Despite Grangetown Boys Club being further down the League pyramid, Chris Hardy is aware that his side can expect a tough game from a team who have nothing to lose.
"It will be a cup final for them," said Hardy.
"We don't want a repeat of last season (going out to Redcar Athletic). We received a lot of criticism for that result and we don't want that to be the case this year.
Admission at the Turnbull Ground this evening is half-price for all supporters so £5 Adults, £3 Concessions/U18 Club Members and FREE entry for U18s with a paying adult.
There will also be LIVE commentary on Yorkshire Coast Radio Extra from 7:45pm, as well as updates on Facebook and Twitter.


Now that fall is here, I have so many crafts I want to with Noah! I search Pinterest for ideas and then take a screen shot of the crafts so I have them handy in my camera roll. And while this might sound crazy, in order to get them all done, I actually schedule them on my calendar. I figure September will be all about the "fall" crafts and then we will move onto Halloween in October and turkeys in November.
I loved the idea of using apples as stamps. You could use this stamping technique in so many different ways. I've seen people use citrus fruits and you could also get fancy and cut into potatoes and stamp some jack-o-lantern faces! We kept it super simple and just cut some smaller macintosh apples in half. We picked quite a few macintoshes at the farm and then found out that they weren't Noah's cup of tea. So we did the next best thing and used them to craft! I found the tree template here and printed out a few copies on card stock (I prefer using the thicker paper when painting). We colored the trees with crayons and then Noah picked out the paint colors he wanted to use for the stamping. I find it amusing that Noah chose purple instead of the typical fall yellow or red... it really makes his artwork unique!
I am going to give this apple stamping a try! I think it would be a good way to use apples that are on their way out, too! I love how you craft so much with Noah.
haha! love that you save the crafts to your camera roll because that is EXACTLY what I do too!!!! I also save them so that Lily can see a picture of the finished project if it is "that" kind of activity. How do you save them in your calendar? Just manually enter them? Did ya'll use acrylic paints or what kind?
Ok, no joke, you are seriously like the craft queen! I hope you are posting all of these on Pinterest for others to find because... genius!!!


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The 12cm Utility Knife has a blade that is crafted from a high-quality Japanese 301 steel, while the handle is formed from stainless steel. A metal "pearl" is inlayed in the handle. This unique design used for this knife is the brain child of F.A. Porsche and chef of the year Jörg Wörther.
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Final text of the Software Developers letter on WIPO treaty.
any of the other proposals on the table at this conference.
possible effects of this treaty on the NII and GII.
database treaty on the GII.
different systems before it reaches its final destination.
effectively 9-digit numbers, and are known as IP addresses.
exchange information identifying where each IP address is located.
and for each IP address listing its current location.
which packets can then be sent.
effect contains the IP address of each machine.
or indirectly through the data supplied by Network Solutions.
however unable to make this claim with certainty.
Network Solutions would end up owning the Internet.
must be very carefully analyzed and understood.
services today include Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, and Verity.
valuable service to the users of the Internet.
database from Network Solutions to the root name servers.
site to the search system for indexing.
means or in any form"
extraction which has taken place.
significance to the value of the database"
name servers willing to provide the same information for free.
services would thus be prohibited.
Internet.  As such, re-distribution of them has a "significant"
them would be considered "substantial", and able to be prohibited.
the harmful effects of the treaty would be unchanged.
carefully considered legislative changes to the U.S. Copyright Act.
been made to the U.S. Copyright Act.
further consideration at the WIPO conference.
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Discussion in 'Mac Accessories' started by adversus, Dec 15, 2014.
So my home office is a mess. For context, I work from home so I'm at my work desk for 15 hours a day or more depending on my evening entertainment plans.
I spend most of my day on the rMBP, and have a small USB 3 hub behind my monitor that hosts my keyboard, phones, tablet. This connects to my rMBP during the day and I push video using HDMI to my Asus display.
When I need more power, I move the USB hub to my Mac Pro (which has a USB extension cable tethered to a clip next to the hub for easy switching), and then I use the wireless keyboard/mouse on the rMBP while the wired devices are on the Mac Pro. It's a Quad Core with 32GB of RAM and 4x SSD's. I can run several VM's (client and server environments) if needed.
The Mac Pro drives the Asus with a dual link DVI.
I've gotten used to this setup but feel it's inefficient and it's made my desk somewhat a mess (mostly the bundle of cables under/behind my monitor). I'm thinking of raising my monitor on a monitor stand and using a Thunderbolt dock underneath it. So my laptop would connect to that.
My only concern is switching my wired keyboard/mouse from the Thunderbolt dock to my Mac Pro. What I really need is a Thunderbolt dock with a built in KVM Switch-style functionality, but I don't know if this really exists.
Don't think that exists, but those are USB devices right? There are several USB switches available that suffice for KB/Mice. There are some that do auto switching but I dunno how that would work for your setup. They are more convenient when your KB has a USB port that you can plug your mouse into.
TB is way better than USB for drive access.
If you are using those virtual machines on both Macs it almost sounds like you are better off with either shared storage or a dedicated virtualisation server.
If you are spending more time at your desk it might also be a better idea to use the MP as a fixed setup and just use the MBP additionally and on the road. So without any docks, just hook up everything to the MP. You can then share the usb disk with the vm's if you must.
What do you use the vm's for?
I thought about using my MP as my "primary", everything that I use daily is cloud-based or supports iCloud (Office 365, DropBox, Evernote, Omnigraffle), so using both machines isn't really an issue.
I use VM's for running environments for the clients I consult for. That means a Windows Server + SQL Server and the related services for the ERP software I support as well as development environments for the architecting and development that I do.
So I run could have anywhere from 1 to 4-5 going at once depending on what I'm doing and how many clients are bugging me throughout the day.
My VM's have to be portable because I travel a lot, and my rMBP can't store all of them, so I use a USB 3.0 WD Passbook when I travel. Not thunderbolt because I can hook it up to a client's workstation or laptop when I'm onsite with them, if needed.
I should note, I just pre-ordered the OWC Thunderbolt dock and am going to give that a whirl. Seems to have most options that I want, I just need to figure out the USB Keyboard/Mouse switching issue.
I added a CalDigit dock to my MBP which I use in clamshell mode at home. It's attached to a 23" ACD. Lets me unplug the power and TB cable and I'm out the door. Nothing else is connected directly to the MBP.


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5 facts teens should know about 'Juuling'
By Amy Albin • May 7, 2018
As more teens are vaping, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is pushing to educate youth about the health impacts of e-cigarettes.
Ask any teenager if kids at school are "Juuling" and you'll probably hear yes.
The "Juul" is a type of e-cigarette device that dispenses a potent dose of nicotine when the user inhales. Unlike an e-cigarette, the slickly designed device resembles a small USB flash drive and creates very little smoke, so it is not easily detected by teachers and parents.
"Unfortunately, the Juul is just another e-cigarette reiteration that dispenses the same old chemicals, including addictive nicotine. These chemicals are not harmless," says Dr. Holly Middlekauff. She is a professor of medicine (cardiology) and physiology at UCLA who studies the health effects of e-cigarettes.
According to the Juul website, each Juul pod device is approximately equivalent to one pack of cigarettes or 200 puffs.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced that it is cracking down on the illegal sale of e-cigarettes to minors, including those under the Juul brand and other similar emerging brands such as myblue and KandyPens. The agency is also creating a Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan to stop the use of, and access to, Juul and other e-cigarettes.
Middlekauff believes in providing teens with the facts so they can make their own informed decisions about vaping.
A fact-based video aimed at teens offers information about e-cigarettes.
She produced an educational You Tube video as part of a community involvement project for her research with The Tobacco Related Disease Research Program. This program is funded from taxes on tobacco products in California.
The video highlights these facts:
1. E-cigs have only been around since 2003, so we don't know the long-term effects on the body yet.
2. E-cigs deliver nicotine, which increases heart rate, blood pressure and releases rewarding neurotransmitters in the brain which can cause vaping to become addictive.
3. Nicotine is a stimulant that makes people feel more alert but causes cravings after the stimulant goes away. It also interferes with the body's ability to make dopamine, a chemical that regulates the brain's reward and pleasure centers.
4. E-cigs contain chemical solvents that, when heated, can turn into formaldehyde, a cancer-causing carcinogen.
5. E-cigs are sold in thousands of enticing flavors. Some, like the butter flavors, contain diacetyl, which can cause irreversible scarring of the lung tissue; some fruit flavors have been found to be cytotoxic, which can cause cancer.
Studies show that people who start vaping or smoking in their teens are more likely to smoke as adults, Middlekauff says.
"Although we don't know everything about e-cigarettes, we do know that using them can lead to changes in adrenaline levels that are associated with increased risk for a heart attack and fatal arrhythmias – even in people without known heart disease, says Middlekauff. "My advice? Don't start using e-cigarettes in the first place."
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