Patellar tendinitis

Patellar tendinitis 

https://youtu.be/bvryJd1FqyQ

• Cross friction massage
• Patellar mobilization/stretches
• Prone quad stretching 
• Standing quad stretching 
• Straight leg raises
• glute bridges
• wall sits
• Box squats
• Reverse lunge

Biomechanics:

• Go slow - faster you go, more load is transferred to the tendon.
• Keep knee behind the toes over the ankle
• Load the muscles not the tendon

Spanish - The

Nouns have gender.

THE - definite article
(masculine, feminine)
Singular: el, la
Plural: los, las

Masculine Nouns:
typically end in -o
Perro, vino, amigo
Some do end in -a or -ma(the typical feminine ending)
Drama. Idioma, mapa
Some end in neither
Animal, hospital. hombre

Feminine nouns:
Typically end in -a
Bolsa, casa,Mesa
end in -ción, -sión, -dad, -tad, or -tud
lección, televisión, ciudad, amistad, actitud
few nouns that end in -o (the typical masculine ending)
Foto, mano, radio
Many End in neither listed above
Flor, clase, luz

Article determined gender
-ista and -nte can be used to refer to male or female
el cantante the (male) singer
la cantante the (female) singer

el taxista the (male) cabdriver
la taxista the (female) cabdriver

Plurals
El -> Los, la -> las
Ends in vowel, add -s.
Ends in consonant, add -es

vice

Netflix: Bad Blood

Crepe myrtle

Tonto
- red
- globose
- 9 ft

Catawba
- Deep purple
- upright
- 19 ft


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Pruning

• Pinching
• 1-2 cm
• younger plant
• fuller growth
• Selective pruning
• no more than 1/3rd of all branches at a time
• full prune
• All branches down to 2-3 nodes per branch
• flowers will take time
• but, plant will be nice
• hard prune
• rejuvenate the plant
• old plant, lot of dead wood

The main idea is to prune just before a warming trend is coming, so that your hibiscus will grow very actively, and the increasing warmth will pull them forward into lush new growth.

Esperanza

Pruning:
Remove fading flowers
Heavy late winter pruning before leaves are put out.

Graham Hill on TED.com

Check out this amazing TED Talk:

Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness
http://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_less_stuff_more_happiness.html

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http://itunes.com/apps/tedconferences/ted

Thanks,
~Balaji

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Science of babies

First breath is a transformation. Hugely important.

We are born when we are due to the brain size and the size of the birth canal passage. in humans, babies need to be rotated to pass through; other mammals can do it on their own.

Humans have some pre-programmed reflexes
Rest is learned behaviour

we are born with about a hundred billion neurons. this stays about the same during the lifetime. What develops is connections. Which can become as many as a quadrillion in the first year..

Much of the philosophy is use it or lose it.
 If one eye develops cataract, the good eye blocks off connections of the bad eye to the brain; so, if you fixed the cataract after the baby is a little older, it will not restore vision, because the eye has been blocked off by the brain. After fixingg the eye early, the good eye is shut off for a period to help the operated eye catchup to the good eye. Visual cortexes.

Humans are the only bipedal creatures.


http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/National_Geographic_Science_of_Babies/70144620?trkid=2361637

Netflix night out

Today I did nothing. Fixed dinner and lunch for tomorrow and rest of the evening was all tv shows on Netflix. Found many a show from way back when - Ally McBeal, 3rd rock from the sun, Malcolm in the middle, Mr. Bean, Scrubs to name a few. It seems like getting rid of cable was a good call. Feels great to not waste the limited minutes on the myriad ads. Totally worthwhile. Having the shows by season helps with the goal-setting also - like I need motivation to be entertained.

Wild target

Funny. Entertaining.

Life in day

Creative. You get a peek into the lives of several others. Time flies by watching this one.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT_UmBHMYzg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Free full movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT_UmBHMYzg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Imdb:
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1687247/

Crows

Today, after having relinquished my cable and forced to look into alternate sources of entertainment, I wandered onto the nature section of the PBS website. I learned a little bit about crows and was fascinated by it.
Here are a few tidbits to help me recall:

• Crows live up to 20 years and care for their young ones for as many as five.
• They like to be close to each other. They are social. They have one kind of calling for the community and the family communicates in a different, much softer dialect.
• They can recognize faces and associate them as good or bad and remember a face for up to 2 years. They are great at communicating and learn from the misfortunes of fellow crows.
• They are great at using tools. They are one of the handful of creatures that make tools. Their intelligence in this respect is comparable to apes. They demonstrate capability to chain together multiple steps to accomplish a goal. In an experiment, the crow used a small stick to draw the longer stick out and used the longer stick to get the food out.
• Parrots have the biggest brain among birds; but crows prove to be more intelligent. They are able to communicate things like whom to be cautious of to their young ones, in addition to other adults.
• The nest is designed to accommodate the female. In Japan, they often use clothing hangers for building their nests. They shape it with their bodies forcing it outward to get the correct shape.
• Here is a link to the video: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-murder-of-crows/introduction/5838/

Of Martians and Venusians

The book has been around for quite a bit but I never really looked at it one way or another. I picked it up recently and is proving to be an interesting read. We may love ourselves so much that we often would want people close to us, people whom we love and care about to be more like us. This is a pitfall and can very quickly sour relationships with those that often matter the most. It is important to realize and accept that two people are different. It is even more important to realize that two people of the opposite sex have very different wants from life and that they look at the same things quite differently. It is important to be aware of this and understand where the generic differences lie. This will not only eliminate some of the needless stress, but you will start to enjoy your interactions even more. This book seems to shed light on the how men and women are different, and how they have different expectations, different philosophies, different everything(well, not everything, but certainly many things). 

BikeSource Duathlon 2010 @ Heritage Park

37  1:26:27 

Run      Bike

2 mile run       37 16:50   

11.3 mile bike   41 43:43   

3 mile run       33 25:02 

Transition       11  0:54   
 

Trolley Run 2010

Explore Kansas and Missouri

KANSAS
Kaw point riverfront park
Baker Wetlands, Lawrence KS.

Monument Rocks (Chalk Pyramids) and Castle Rock

Garden of Eden, Lucas,KS

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Near the Flint hills scenic byways.

Flint hills scenic byways 40+ mi drive.

Missouri
Kansas City Renaissance Festival - Sept - October
Powell Gardens
Kansas City Zoo

Resolutions for 2010

Resolutions for the new year.

• Transition from the 3.5+ level to the 4.0 level at tennis, playing more 4.0 guys.
• Take a lot of pictures
• Explore city parks and state parks and lakes
• Explore downtowns of cities in the Kansas City Metro
• Capture winter, spring, summer and fall
• Do some street photography and include people in pictures.
• Explore Kansas
• Pick up ice skating - be able to do the hockey stop, gliding on one foot with ease
• Get better at swimming - be able to do 3 laps without halting
• Do two half marathons and attempt a full if knees can take it.
• Use the road bike to work in good weather. Do Tour De Shawnee or similar.
• Do some dirt trails on MTB
• Do more sketching
• Explore the Rockies

Test the mail-in your post feature

This seems to be a nice little feature, though I don't think its something I'll end up using much. If I have access to email, I will have blogspot around too. Some of the use case I can conceive are - 

1. I'm on the go with an urge to blog some irretrievable thoughts, and with my iPod, I might use email than go to blogpsot on it. I'd imagine that Blogger should have an app for it though.

2. Posting an email I received

3. Post and email it to others in one shot.

4. You like your email client more than you like Blogspot.

5. Be at work, composing an email in Outlook, when you are really blogging!!

A brief history of art

My visit to the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, spurred an interest in understanding the way art has evolved over time.

Cave painting is where it began some 32,00 years ago. We do not know the purpose of these paintings. Looks like human kind has an innate desire of expression. We started off crude and got smarter over thousands of years. Primitive techniques include spitting or blowing pigments onto the rocks.

There is Eastern painting and Western painting. Eastern seems to have been around longer than western but later as travel increased each influenced the other.

Eastern Painting - Chinese, Japanese, Korean

• Water-based
• Less realism
• Elegant & Stylized objects
• Preference for landscape over human subjects
• Importance of white space/negative space
• Ink & Color on silk or paper, gold on lacquer were common.

Art is very much inspired by and a reflection of the ideology.

Chinese Painting

Indian Painting

Western Painting

-Egypt, Greece & Rome

Painting in Americas

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_painting