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Contact: Hilary Hurd Anyaso

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Northwestern University

Male maturity shaped by early nutrition

Differences between the sexes affected by environment during first six months of life

EVANSTON, Ill. --- It seems the old nature versus nurture debate can't be won. But a new Northwestern University study of men in the Philippines makes a strong case for nurture's role in male to female differences -- suggesting that rapid weight gain in the first six months of life predicts earlier puberty for boys.

Males who experienced rapid growth as babies -- an indication that they were not nutritionally stressed -- also were taller, had more muscle and were stronger, and had higher testosterone levels as young adults. They had sex for the first time at a younger age and were more likely to report having had sex in the past month, resulting in more lifetime sex partners.

The researchers think that testosterone may hold the key to understanding these long-term effects.

"Most people are unaware that male infants in the first six months of life produce testosterone at approximately the same level as an adult male," said Christopher W. Kuzawa, associate professor of anthropology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and author of the study. "We looked at weight gain during this particular window of early life development, because testosterone is very high at this age and helps shape the differences between males and females."

The study provides more evidence that genes alone do not shape our fate.

"The environment has a very strong hand in how we turn out," Kuzawa said. "And this study extends that idea to the realm of sex differences and male biology."

The study found men, on average, tend to be taller and more muscular than females, and the magnitude of that difference appears to be the result of nutrition within the first six months of an infant male's life, according to the study.

"There is a perennial question about how important heredity is versus the environment as shapers of who we turn out to be," said Kuzawa. "In the last 20 years, a lot has been learned about a process called developmental plasticity -- how the body responds early in life to things like nutrition and stress. Early experiences can have a permanent effect on how the body develops, and this effect can linger into adulthood. There is a lot of evidence that this can influence risk of diseases like heart attack, diabetes and hypertension -- really important diseases."

Kuzawa and his collaborators applied the same framework in this study and found evidence that male characteristics -- such as height, muscle mass and testosterone levels as opposed to disease characteristics -- also relate back to early life developmental plasticity.

"Another way to look at it is that the differences between the sexes are not hard wired, but are responsive to the environment, and in particular to nutrition," Kuzawa said.

Testosterone has long been known to increase muscle mass and puts a person on a higher growth trajectory to be taller. The Northwestern study suggests that the age of puberty also is influenced by events in the first six months of life.

The study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner Gren Foundation, was conducted among a group of 770 Filipino males aged 20 to 22 who have been followed their entire lives. Since 1983 a team of researchers in the United States and the Philippines (including Kuzawa for about the last 10 years) has been working to understand how early life nutrition influences adult health, such as risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

"Rapid Weight Gain After Birth Predicts Life History and Reproductive Strategy in Filipino Males" was published Sept. 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study's co-authors are Thomas W. McDade, associate professor of anthropology, Northwestern University, Linda S. Adair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Nanette Lee, University of San Carlos of the Office of Population Studies in Cebu City, Philippines.

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For best results, don't completely lock out the elbows for a bench press. I'm a certified personal trainer. My definition of a true elbow lockout is when your arms are as straight as they can be, and you can feel the elbows locking out; your arms may even be hyper-extended (though this is far more likely with women, due to their bone structure).

The lighter the weight in a bench press, the easier it is to lock out the elbows. The elbow lockout creates the illusion of achieving the greatest range of motion. However, at the same time, you sacrifice muscle tension.

Subjecting the muscles to continuous, non-interrupted tension will produce maximum results. The elbow lockout creates a momentary rest at the top of the lift. This rest cuts into the tension and gives the muscles a break. You don't want that.

Suppose you were to lower the bar all the way to your chest, but then let it rest there before pressing it back up. Obviously, you wouldn't be able to let 100 percent of the weight rest upon you, but suppose you were to take some tension off of it with your hands and let some of the load rest upon your chest. This would be cheating, in that this would interrupt the continuous tension in your muscles; the exertion would be momentarily stopped.

Well, the same thing happens with locking out the elbows in your bench press; it's an interruption. For best bench press results, straighten the arms at the top of the lift, but stop just short of a complete elbow lockout. This will maximize range of motion without interrupting the exertion.

If your arms remain slightly bent, you'll still make gains, even though this will be slightly less range of motion. However, your muscles will be constantly fighting the weight without any relief whatsoever at the top of the lift, and you'll fatigue faster than with straighter arms.

In fact, partial reps is a form of intensity training, and it can be applied to the bench press. Push the weight up half way only, or three-quarters of the way. You'll fatigue a lot faster and will need a lighter weight load if you try this technique with whatever you normally reach muscle failure at with, say, eight reps.

Another reason to avoid locking out the elbows with bench pressing is that all that locking out can be hard on the elbow joint and may create strain, even pain.

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Yankees What Happened To Our Don?

Who needs medical school when all you need to do is cover the Dodgers? It surely isn’t get any easier for the Dodgers as they place right-handed pitcher Vicente Padilla on the 15-day disabled list with a bulging disk in his neck. The team will be recalling right-handed relief pitcher Travis Schlichting from Triple-A Albuquerque.

“It’s a blow,” Torre said. “It’s like that other shoe hitting the floor, you hoped it was going to be better after the last one.”

“He’s had a little bit of left neck pain the last two starts,” head medical trainer Stan Conte said. “After the first couple of innings in his last start it started bothering him again. It kind of bothers him a little bit in the neck, a little bit on the left side in between his shoulder blade.”

Padilla since coming off the disabled list on June 19 with a sore right elbow had been remarkable for the Dodgers before his last two starts having a 1.80 ERA in nine starts with a 4-2 record. He hasn’t fared that well in his last two starts giving up 12 earned runs in 9 1/3 innings pitched - the same amount of runs he gave up in his previous nine starts.

“It didn’t show up in the velocity, but it showed up in his command,” Torre observed.

Dr. Robert Watkins, Jr. performed an MRI on Padilla today and discovered the bulge in one of the disks in the neck.

“It’s not a real big bulge, and it’s not pushing on a nerve,” Conte said. “But it’s a bulge nevertheless and probably the source of where his problem is.”

Padilla most likely will not undergo surgery instead receiving an epidural injection tomorrow to help reduce the inflammation.

If Joe Girardi decides he had enough of the Yankees experience and goes to the Cubs, the Yankees can forget about Don Mattingly managing them.

The Dodgers hired Mattingly as their new manager after Joe Torre announced he won't return as the Dodger manager next year.

This is too bad. The Yankees need a manager who appreciates the game. They need a manager who won't overmanage. They need a manager who will not have an ego on gamedays.

Mattingly would fit the bill. Please do not talk about his lack of experience. Any manager can manage a team with the payroll the Yankees have.

If a manager has plenty of talent to work with he can get by. We saw that with Girardi last year.

The Yankees manager made dubious decisions when it came to pitching in October. Fortunately for him, his hitters bailed him out.

It also helped that CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett, and Andy Pettitte managed to win games in October.

If Girardi was not blessed with talent he would just be another manager and nothing more.

Want to know how players look good? Look back to Boston's manager Terry Francona. Philadelphia sports fans perceived him as a dumb manager when he lost in Philly. Yet he is now viewed as a great manager because he won two championships in Boston.

 

Does a manager make that much of a difference? All a manager can do is have his team sharp when the game begins.

Other than that, it comes down to what the players do within the white lines.

There is a good reason the Yankees are not in a rush to sign Girardi to an extension. They know he is replaceable. If anything, he should be begging to stay on rather than using the Cubs as leverage.

That would be a bad strategy on Girardi's part, especially if the Yankees miss out on the playoffs for the second time in three years under his stewardship. Don't laugh at that prospect.

The Yankees are nicked up with injuries. Nick Swisher and Brett Gardner can't seem to move, Mark Teixiera's foot limits his ability to hit, and Alex Rodriguez has not been productive thanks to a hip issue.

Their hitters don't scare elite pitchers. The Yankees strike out often these days at a high ratio.

Outside of CC Sabathia, no one in the rotation scares anyone. The Yankees are banking on Andy Pettitte, but what if he can't be good enough after being activated from the disabled list?

The schedule does the team no favors. The Orioles, Rays, Blue Jays, and the Red Sox know what it takes to beat the Yankees this year.

With the Red Sox six games out in the division and six 1/2 games out for the wild card, they can make a run of their own. At this point, there's more trust on the Red Sox than the Yankees to make the playoffs.

 

What's alarming is Girardi is not responding to the situation well. He has been moody with reporters. He talked about how the pennant race is work. He has had a quick hook with the pitchers if they screw up.

Is this want the Yankees want to see from their leader?

This type of attitude rubs off on the players. Girardi was able to relax last year because his players were never hurt and they played great all year.

When there is first sign of trouble, the Yankees manager is tense.

It is not going to get any better next year. The Rays will take a step back with defections, but the Orioles, Blue Jays, and the Red Sox are not going anywhere. Expect those three teams to improve.

How will Girardi handle it? Do the Yankees trust him to lead? This year's experience will speak volumes about him.

We also question Girardi's bullpen use. It's nice he wants to rest his relievers, but this is September. Every game is important. If the Yankees lose these games, the Red Sox will gain more games.

The Yankees should be trying to win these games. The more they win, they can exterminate the Rays. Then, they can go rest their players.

That's how a team should do it. For Girardi to think the wild-card spot is a safety net, that's wrong. Nothing is guaranteed.

If this strategy costs his team the postseason, the Yankees should fire him outright.

Does anyone think Mattingly would do this? Don't think so. Rest assured, he would play to win the game and worry about the other stuff when he has to.

Plus, he would embrace the games in September instead of pouting like a spoiled brat.

Mattingly would have been a better choice to manage the Yankees when the team decided to end their relationship with Torre. He would have been a great choice to take over for Girardi.

It is the Yankees' loss.

They are stuck with Girardi or whoever for better or for worse.

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Apple Ipad Review

As with all Twelve South products, the BookBook for iPad is nicely packaged. Each BookBook comes in a soft Tyvek-like bag that protects the surface of the case while it's being shipped. Slip the BookBook out of the bag, and there's just a simple paper band covered with marketing info that easily slips off.



The BookBook for iPad is closed with a zipper, which is my only beef with the case. They're nice zippers, alright, and they have leather pulls on them that look like bookmarks, but I just don't like zippers because they add a bit of work to getting to work. In other words, I have to unzip the cover all the way before I can get to my iPad. I'd rather just be able to remove an elastic band (a lá Dodo Case or Moleskine) or open a clasp (The Case, Volume 1) and have immediate access to the device.



Now, about the look of the BookBook case; it is just plain beautiful. The leather exterior is nicely distressed to look like an old book, and is even imprinted with a title (BookBook) and an author or volume number (depending on which color you get). Using the case is a trip for most of your senses -- there's the rich smell of leather, the feel of the binding, and the soft dark brown velour lining inside the case.



If you want to prop your iPad up in movie-viewing mode, there's an old-school solution for that, too. Inside one of the covers is a large leather "button", while on the other side is a leather "string." Flip the cover of your BookBook open, pull the string over to the button and wrap it around the button, and the BookBook stays open and propped up.



The BookBook has a stealth security feature. If you happen to have your iPad lying on a table closed up in a BookBook, chances are that anyone intent on stealing the device would just walk on by. It really doesn't look like an iPad case; it looks like an old art book more than anything.



Twelve South does an amazing job with all of their products, and the BookBook for iPad is no exception. And now you have a chance of winning one of two BookBooks from TUAW and Twelve South. We have one sample of each model (Classic Black or Vibrant Red), and to enter our giveaway, all you need to do is leave a comment below with your choice of color. Here are the details:

• Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.


• To enter, leave a comment with which of the two BookBook for iPad models (Classic Black or Vibrant Red) you'd like to win.


• The comment must be left before midnight on Friday, August 27th, 2010, 11:59PM Eastern Daylight Time.


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• Two winners will be selected and each will receive a TwelveSouth BookBook for iPad (Value: US$69.99)


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Good luck!

One thing which Apple never fails to do is to impress us all with awesome new ads for their products. And so going by the trend, Apple today has released a brand new ad for iPad which is dubbed as “iPad is Delicious”. What is so delicious about it? Well you can check out the video after the break to see it for yourself.

iPad surely has revolutionized the way we look at tablet computing. Thanks to some of the great work done by third party developers, this new ad showcases apps like Flipboard, Twitter (web), and Fruit Ninja HD to really show off the great and unique possibilities which you can get with an iPad. Be it learning, cooking, gaming, reading books, creativity, social networking, productivity or fun, the iPad just does it and does it very well!

Take a look !

Make sure you check out our iPhone Apps Gallery and iPad Apps Gallery to explore more apps for your iPhone and iPad. [via The Next Web]

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• What is iPad? A New Ad by Apple


• Windows 7 Slate vs iPad – You Be the Judge !


• iPad Ad Premieres at Oscars 2010


• iPad vs Kindle DX – The Definitive Comparison


• Apple iPad Price and Features – All You Need To Know

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School: Back to school shopping ripoffs?

Don't Trust College Rankings When Choosing a School

If you're scoping out colleges for next year, putting too much stock in college rankings may be a bad idea. Here's why.

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The Consumerist blog points out that college rankings—even from popular sources like US News & World Report, Forbes, and the Princeton Review—are based on factors that have little relevance to whether or not a school is a good choice in the long run. Many factors are opinion-based and give higher rankings to colleges with more full-time faculty, which has been proven to have no relevance to the academic quality. What's also interesting is a finding that your academic rank is more useful in getting a job than the prestige of your school. Overall, experts are finding that there are really no meaningful ways to rank schools against each other so, when picking a school, you're better off basing it solely on criteria that matter to you.

For a network that is purposefully pitched to the lowest common denominator of teenagers, MTV has a pretty impressive history in a lot of different genres of TV shows. Musical programming, animation, sketch comedy, reality TV…well, okay, not so much the first three anymore. Still, any network that can support the blue-collar emotion of 16 & Pregnant alongside the trashy decadence of Jersey Shore deserves at least some kind of acclaim. But one thing has always proven elusive for MTV: good, solid, fictional programming. Example 1: the debut last night of Made: The Movie, which managed to combine every single teen comedy ever made into a cliché-bot cocktail of blandness.

I don’t want to really describe Made in detail, since I don’t want to bore myself or you, but let’s just point out all the disparate parts of this tweeny-bopping Frankenstein:

Juno: The main character of Made is a band geek so band-geeky that everyone calls her Tuba. Tuba is played by Ellen Page-lookalike Cyrina Fiallo with the broadest strokes of hipsterdom – oversized jacket, garage-punk band – but she’s basically Juno without the pregnancy.

High School Musical: Tuba dreams of being a cheerleader. The cheerleaders are all deeply freaked out by this possibility, because any upending of the high school social order will lead to chaos. Basically, the plot of Made is the “Stick to the Status Quo” dance number, except without the music, the dancing, or the gay subtext.

Bring It On: The only interesting character in Made is the head cheerleader, Andi, played by Rachel Skarsten. Like everyone else in the movie, Skarsten looks way too old to be in high school, but her character arc – she realizes that there’s more to life than popularity, like being in a bad pop-punk band – is surprisingly affecting. Unfortunately, her character mostly drowns in a lengthy subplot about a cheerleading squad coup, which you’ll remember from Bring It On, Bring it On Again, Bring It On: All or Nothing, and Bring It On: Criminal Intent.

Mean Girls: One of the best things about the Tina Fey comedy is just how specifically it captures the social stratification of high school, as when Lizzy Caplan pointedly separates the “Asian Nerds” from the “Cool Asians.” Made has a lot of the same story beats as Mean Girls – a snarky best friend, a nice-guy jock love interest, a My Fair Lady-ish plotline, and a “Why can’t we all just get along” speech – but none of the characters really seem all that different.

Glee: There’s a character in Made who constantly throws hot dogs at unpopular people, which is basically like a grosser version of a Slushie attack. On a deeper level, the whole movie feels very Glee-like – candy colors, miles-over-the-top acting, a big performance at the end — without any of the fun. Basically, imagine that everyone on Glee talked like Mr. Schuester and Sue Sylvester didn’t exist.

PopWatchers, did any of you experience Made: The Movie? Am I being too harsh on it? And am I missing some awesome, underrated piece of MTV fictional programming? Don’t say Undressed.

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Buy what you need for the first day of school but don’t buy too much for the rest of the year. Some items, such as pencils and pens, might be useful to stock up on if there is a great sale. But since many stores overstock on items, you may actually be able to find some bargains by scanning for sales after the back to school rush is over.