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Replacement Slate or Tiled Solid Conservatory Roof - Rushden
Can you use your conservatory all year round, or does the weather effect the temperature inside too much?
If you are restricted to when you can use your conservatory as it is too cold in the winter and too warm in the summer, we can help by replacing your old polycarbonate conservatory roof with a light weight solid slate or tiled effect conservatory roof by Nu-Look Solutions, serving Rushden, Northamptonshire and surrounding areas.
A Nu-Look Conservatory Roof Solutions replacement solid slate or tiled conservatory roof will give you a conservatory that you can use all year round.
Some of the benefits of replacing your old polycarbonate roof to a new solid conservatory roof are
it can help reduce energy bills as it is easier to keep warm in the winter
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usable all year round
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the new roof is completely built on site, so there are no worries about it not fitting or measurements not being accurate
we build a bespoke new timber roof
we fit three layers of insulation, so we can achieve a u Value of 0.18
we plaster the inside to a high standard
we fit spotlights to completely finish the conservatory for you
there are different colour options for the effect slate and tiles to help match your house roof
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November 29, 2019
MusclePharm Carnitine Core Review
The best-selling, highly rated MusclePharm supplement company recently introduced MusclePharm Carnitine Core. This liquid dietary supplement aims to transform fat stores into energy, simultaneously enhancing weight loss and workouts.
Any dietary supplement that promises two effects at once gets my attention quickly. But I always do my research before trusting a product's advertised claims. Keep reading to see what I discovered about MusclePharm Carnitine Core.
MusclePharm Carnitine Core's Ingredients
MusclePharm Carnitine Core claims to use a balanced formula of raspberry ketone and several types of carnitine to achieve results. I think each ingredient deserves inspection on its own merits.
L-Carnitine Base
L-Carnitine is an amino acid compound used to convert fat into energy. The theory is that supplemental carnitine increases the amount of fat the body burns. But despite 20 years of research, this theory remains unproven. [1]
N-Acetyl-L-Carnitine is a type of carnitine with a slightly different chemical structure. This type of carnitine might be more bioavailable than other forms. [2]
A 2011 study focused on this type of carnitine and its effects on athletic performance. Over six months, L-carnitine-L-tartrate supplementing resulted in more carnitine in muscle fibers and improved metabolism and athletic performance. [3] This study is good, but more research is needed to verify its results.
Raspberry Ketone
Raspberry ketone is a chemical found naturally in several fruits. This chemical has a structure similar to capsaicin and synephrine, both of which are thought to convert fat into energy. Raspberry ketone may also have this effect. But so far the scientific evidence is not definitive.
This type of carnitine increased power and decreased lactic acid in a 2009 study. [4] But this study focused on trained athletes performing sprints. Not everyone is guaranteed the same results from propionyl-L-carnitine.
All these forms of carnitine have at least some evidence that they positively affect athletic ability and energy. But I'm not convinced that any of them are proven fat burners. The same goes for raspberry ketone. The evidence just isn't strong enough.
MusclePharm Carnitine Core's Price
Even though it is a new product, MusclePharm Carnitine Core already sells at competitive prices. I found plenty of websites selling this product, none for more than $15. Since each bottle of MusclePharm Carnitine Core contains 30 servings, that's less than $0.50 per serving.
MusclePharm Carnitine Core's Directions
MusclePharm Carnitine Core is a liquid dietary supplement. Taking it is much like taking a liquid cough syrup or cold medicine. Just pour out a tablespoonful (about half an ounce) and gulp it down 1 to 3 times a day. If the flavor bothers you, MusclePharm Carnitine Core also mixes well with juice or another beverage.
Make sure you shake the bottle well before you take MusclePharm Carnitine Core. This product needs to be refrigerated once opened.
MusclePharm Carnitine Core's Reviews
Since MusclePharm Carnitine Core has only been available for a few months, I didn't expect to find any reviews from actual users. Surprisingly, I did find a few on BodyBuilding.com.
So far, consumer feedback on MusclePharm Carnitine Core is extremely positive. A noticeable boost in energy was the most commonly reported effect. Several reviewers also noted some fat loss, though this was less extreme. A strong, unpleasant flavor was the most common complaint.
These reviews are a good starting point. But MusclePharm Carnitine Core needs a lot more positive feedback before I believe it's a potent dietary supplement. I'd especially like more evidence of MusclePharm Carnitine Core's fat burning abilities.
Summary of MusclePharm Carnitine Core
MusclePharm Carnitine Core fails to convince me it's an incredibly effective energy and fat-burning supplement. Carnitine and raspberry ketone simply lack scientific evidence that they can produce these effects over and over. And not enough people have commented on MusclePharm Carnitine Core's effectiveness to override this lack of evidence.
On the positive side, MusclePharm Carnitine Core is definitely an inexpensive carnitine supplement option. If you're looking to test the effects of carnitine for yourself, MusclePharm Carnitine Core might be a good product to try.
[1] Sarao C. "N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine and Acetyl-L-Carnitine." Livestrong. 2012 Jan 5. Available from: http://www.livestrong.com/article/552774-n-acetyl-l-cysteine-and-acetyl-l-carnitine/
[2] Higdon J. "L-Carnitine." Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University. 2002 Oct. Available from: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/othernuts/carnitine/
[3] Wall BT, Stephens FB, Constantin-Teodosiu D, Marimuthu K, Macdonald IA, Greenhaff, PL. "Chronic oral ingestion of L-carnitine and carbohydrate increases muscle carnitine content and alters muscle fuel metabolism during exercise in humans." J Physiol. 2011 Feb 15. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060373/
[4] Jacobs PL, Goldstein ER, Blackburn W, Orem I, Hughes JJ. "Glycine propionyl-L-carnitine produces enhanced anaerobic work capacity with reduced lactate accumulation in resistance trained males." J Int Soc Sports Nutr. 2009 Apr 2. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19341458

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pasta with mushroom sauce
I have lived in Mombasa for the past 30 years and my hubby since childhood. When my kids were young and didn't have afternoon school, we would spend every afternoon on the beach. Back then we lived pretty near to the beach, third row but the public pathway to the beach passed near our house. 5 minutes walk and we would be on the beach with buckets, spades, towels, goggles, flippers, milk, sandwiches… the works. It was like a ritual till they started afternoon classes. However, the weekends were still spent on the beach till they left Mombasa to go to Kodaikanal to study. My beach trips became less as by then we had moved back into town. Daily routine, jobs etc took over and my hubby and I hardly ever went to the beach.
Lunching at restaurants near the beach was the normal outing on Sundays, however that's all we did. My hubby kept on complaining that we were not enjoying the beautiful sandy beach and the pristine blue sea enough. About 2 years back he came across a new building coming up on the beach and decided to fulfill his dream of owning a place on the beach. What we could afford was a studio apartment. Talks between the lawyers began and after nearly 2 years we are proud owners of a studio apartment on the beach. Its our weekend getaway place when we don't have any social commitments.
Suddenly a lazy Sunday has become a day to take long walks on the beach, dip our feet in the sea, swim in the pool and workout in the excellent gym that this complex has. I don't want to spend the weekends at the studio cooking, so what I usually do is plan a meal for Saturday dinner and make preparations at home. Sunday lunches are out and evening meals are light. Pasta, sandwiches, theplas, handvo, pies, omelette works out well. Its a simple task of boiling the pasta and heating the sauce. This weekend I decided to make pasta with mushroom sauce. Its an easy dish to make and kids love it too.
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4 Servings
2 -2½ cups pasta, any shape
2- 2½ cups of mushrooms
1 cup milk
2 tbsp plain flour
3 tbsp olive oil
½ cup fresh cream
½ cup chopped fresh parsley
1 tbsp finely chopped garlic
1 tsp pepper powder
2 tsp salt
4 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
Preparation of the sauce:
- Wash and dry the mushrooms. Process them roughly in a food processor.
- Heat 2 tbsp of olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Don't let it get too hot.
- Add garlic and mushroom to the oil. Saute for a minute. Add the flour and keep on mixing for a few seconds.
- Add the milk and keep on stirring till the sauce thickens a bit.
- Add 1 tsp salt, pepper, fresh parsley and the fresh cream. Mix the sauce well and keep it on the side till required.
- Heat enough water in a pan to boil the pasta.
- Add the remaining salt and oil to the boiling water. Add the pasta and boil for 7 to 8 minutes or as instructed on the packet.
- Drain out the water and add the pasta to the sauce.
- Heat it up a little if necessary and serve sprinkled with parmesan cheese.
- Add fresh herbs of your choice but parsley does taste good and different.
- Use any cheese of your choice.
- You can use only fresh cream instead of milk if you like. Don't add flour as the cream will thicken on its own.
- You can use any type of mushrooms for this recipe.
- If the sauce becomes too thick, just add a bit of milk.
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A client's site ranks for some keywords that aren't core to any of its themes, and it keeps getting bounced back to page 2. This is my hypothesis of what's going on.
The page ranks by fluke, really. It's propped up by site authority and the unique content having attracted nice links. The problem is that the content only tangentially touches on the keywords it's ranking for, but doesn't quite satisfy the user intent of the query. As a result, the bounce rate is astronomical.
When the content was first published, it ranked around the middle of page 1. Over time, it dropped to page 2, and has since bounced around page 2, mostly on a downward trend. Until a recent link came through, it hovered around position 18.
That link bounced rankings back up to the middle of page 1. Temporarily. It's since reverted back to page 2.
Why? I'm betting that it's because of the bounce rate. The page is better optimized, onpage and offpage, relative to competing pages. But it doesn't quite provide what visitors were hoping for when they typed the search. To be clear, the page's title isn't misleading, and should qualify the clicks, but the bounce rate is still very high. I have to guess that the bounce metric is what's causing the repeat slumps.
In fact, anecdotal evidence from my logs, as well as periodic rank checks at a time when I cared more about ranking for 'seo', made me think that the continually changing content on my homepage affected my rank. Now I have an indication that it may have been self-reinforcing, as the homepage posts that weren't about seo increased bounce rates. To give you an idea of the extent of this, I had been #3 behind 2 Wikipedia results, and I now am around the top of page 2, generally.
My feeling is that Google's worked some pretty intelligent user metrics code into its algorithm. Yes, people have been saying that bounce rates count for a while, but no one really documented what it looked like in practice, nor shared any real proof that bounce rate was a factor of the algorithm. It was logical speculation, at least as far as I've read to date.Tags: Algorithms, Analytics, Case Studies, Content, keywords


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Looking for store details, we have it here.
Jet is a discount clothing and footwear retailer, catering to the needs of families in Southern Africa. It is a company that was created to serve a huge and important market: the people of Africa who want a choice of good quality, affordable fashion.
Today, Jet has more than 220 stores in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland, all of which stock a range of quality labels for the entire family.
Mallguide is a directory listing for Malls;
What you see here today is really the amalgamation of years of loving work and ideas, developed with all possible users in mind. Mallguide will service malls, shops, leasing agents and even independent movie houses who until now have not been able to provide their customers with a free resource to all relevant information.
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Just 2 miles from the centre of Cork city and 4 miles from Blarney Castle, Great National Commons Inn Hotel has free WiFi and free parking on site. Blackpool retail park, shopping centre and cinema is less than 10 minutes' walk away.
Note: Map is an approximate indication ONLY. Please contact Great National Commons Inn Hotel for directions and precise location prior to your visit.


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This review is from Barry (don't know his last name) who won a Musea quiz and got my 5th CD as prize – November 2011.
My 9 CD set is virtually all the same, so his words work for all 150 recorded songs.
I'm currently enjoying your album "5TH", having been pleasantly surprised by the sheer craft and accessibility of your music. I expected something very different and perhaps not so accessible from the progenitor of "post-band" music, but this is simply a pleasure.
Your voice is open, unaffected, and unfailingly musical, a little similar to my ears to Don McLean
The CD is well designed and produced, and makes a fine presentation to anyone you should wish to impress.
Thank you for your gift to me. Guess I'm 'wised up".*
Best Regards,
*My quizzes have the preface, "I don't dumb down, so you wise up!" That is what he is referring to.


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The Haverford Township Civic Council invites interested members of the community to participate in an organizing meeting to identify public spaces in need of beautification. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 17th from 7:30-9:00 PM in the Environmental Room of the Community, Recreation and Education Center (CREC) at Haverford Reserve.
At its annual meeting in April the Civic Council approved an action priority proposal submitted by the Haverford Partnership for Economic Development (HPED) to work together to organize this initiative. The plan is to gather interested individuals and community leaders, identify unattractive public spaces (such as train stations, road islands, institutional grounds) and recruit nearby organizations to adopt spaces for beautification purposes. The idea had originated with Third Ward Commissioner, Jane Hall, who represents the Township to the board of directors of the HPED.
The Civic Council will also confer with officials and other Township Commissioners to identify potential public spaces in their wards.
Leaders of Haverford Green will share their experience with public space adoption with their award-winning Triangle Garden at the fork on Darby Road just below the Township administration building.
People who are interested in this community-wide beautification initiative should contact Don Kelly, HPED Vice President, at 610-449-5825 or via-e-mail email@example.com
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In this blog post I will show you how to update UEFI BIOS on your Lenovo Thinkpad laptop without need to boot into Windows or use bootable CD/DVD.
ThinkPad T440s brings a new big clickable touchpad that also contains tree buttons you use when manipulate with trackpoint. This post shows how to enable scrolling with TrackPoint on this laptop under Fedora 21.
How to enable the TrackPoint in Fedora 20 (on Lenovo ThinkPad L430).
How to run Google's Android Studio on Fedora 20
How to install the proprietary AMD ATI Catalyst Display Driver (fglrx) on Fedora 20 and how to switch from it back to the open-source Radeon driver.


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If you're looking for beautiful and professionally made to measure curtains, co-ordinates, net curtains, cushions, covers, matching duvet covers, tie backs, or blinds, roller, vertical, venetian, roman, festoon etc. etc.
Cloth world is second to none for quality service and value.
Cloth World was established in 1990 making 2010 our 20th anniversary. The shop is owned and run by Carol Roberts. All work is carried out on the premises in our own workroom to an exceptionally high standard.
Call into our showroom and choose from our extensive range of top quality fabrics
IWe stock Sirdar yarns and accesories. DMC embroidary silks are also on hand.
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It's Sunday again, so The Woods are bringing you your week's PlayStation news via The Catch-Up! Click the video above to enjoy your weekly PlayStation news, reviews, and features round-up, now hosted by D'yani and Chandler Wood!
You can check out all of the articles mentioned in full by clicking the links down below.
Be sure to subscribe to PlayStation LifeStyle's YouTube channel for more episodes of The Catch-Up, as well as other video content.
- PlayStation E3 Experience Returns to Theaters This Year, New Video Showcases Big Upcoming PS4 Games
- Ashley Johnson Joins Tales From the Borderlands Cast
- Rockstar Hiring for a Game With "Complex Open-World Game Environments"
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Review – Perfect Tapestry (PS4)
- Farming Simulator 15 Review – Simulatin' Farmin' (PS4)
- Daily Reaction: Evaluating The Witcher 3's Graphical Downgrade
- Daily Reaction: The Adventures of Dynamic & Static Storytelling
- Daily Reaction – Reigniting Destiny's Fire with House of Wolves
- What We Expect From Sony's First-Party Studios at E3 2015
- 10 PS4 Features We Want Announced at E3 2015
- Everything Wrong With The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- The VOTE: Karmic Decisions in Games – Good or Evil?
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Contemporary Technologies & Biological Psychology
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What contemporary technologies have made significant contributions to biological psychology in the last half of the 20th century?
What are the central issues associated with biological psychology in the context of human development and psychological function? Which one of these do you feel is the most important? Why?© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 9, 2019, 10:54 pm ad1c9bdddf
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1. What contemporary technologies have made significant contributions to biological psychology in the last half of the 20th century?
Biological psychology uses a model with methods and technologies similar to neuropsychology. Recording readings from brain scans using contemporary technology are employed in biological psychology to examine the biological aspects of behavior. These contemporary techniques include the electroencephalogram (EEG) (a measure of electrical potentials at points around the brain, usually outside the skull); magnetoencephalogram (MEG) (uses superconducting magnetic detectors to measure brain activity); computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan (measure using a number of conventional x-rays taken from different angles, then combined in a computer, which reveals structural abnormalities); positron emission tomography (PET) scan (measure that detects emission of positrons from radiolabeled glucose- that lights up areas that are actively taking up glucose, the brain's energy source; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (a measure that measures water density or other chemical characteristics to reveal structural abnormalities); functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) (measure that can show ...
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Repair Affair's Impact: Kenny's Miracle
On permanent disability, 67 year old John, a Vietnam veteran, struggles to make ends meet on a very limited income. He's raising two grandchildren, 8 and 10, in the New Albany Indiana home he's owned for 20 years that's badly in need of repairs with peeling paint, crumbling porch steps, and overgrowth taking over the yard. Plagued with chronic health problems, he's been hospitalized twice this year already, and says it's hard to keep it all together.
"It's just gotten away from me, you know," he says. "Things happen. You want to do things and then you don't get around to it and the worse it gets, the worse it gets."
A friend told him about New Directions Repair Affair and, shortly after qualifying for the program, more than 2 dozen volunteers, employees of The Weber Group, arrived early one morning at John's home.
Thanks to Weber volunteers, the steps are fixed, the porch is painted, there's a new back door, the yard is trimmed and neat, and the children have a new paved play area in the backyard. They transformed his home into a more attractive and stable place to raise his grandkids, and John is thankful.
"I had no idea how many people [were] going to be here," he says. "I'm kind of shocked, actually. I really appreciate the chance to have this work done...this has been amazing."
Also amazing? The smile on John's face as he watches his grandchildren playing around the house that is getting a big lift and a new life. A place we hope they will call home for years to come.


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Beware, Geek.com has learned of and will be revealing some pretty big spoilers below for the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok movie.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is adding some impressive talent to its growing roster of Avengers, directors, and villains that lure audiences back to the theater for another group of interconnected comic book movies. Doctor Strange will pair Benedict Cumberbatch with Tilda Swinton, and director Ryan Coogler, hot off Creed, has been handed the Chadwick Boseman movie Black Panther. In a recent twist of A-List fate, we learned that Cate Blanchett, Oscar-nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carol this year, has been added to the cast of Thor: Ragnarok.
Not a lot has been made public about the third Thor movie and what we can expect to see. Mark Ruffalo has been officially added and will reprise his role as Bruce Banner/The Hulk. He was excited enough that Cate Blanchett was added to the cast that he let slip a tiny detail about Blanchett's role. "I saw her at the Governor's banquet here and heard that maybe she was circling, they were talking to her about the part," said Ruffalo (via The Playlist), "so I ran up to her and I was like, 'Please, please, please make this work!' She's just one of the best, and to have her play a baddie is going to be really exciting."
The subtitle of Thor: Ragnarok doesn't give much away as far as where director Taika Waititi is taking the Marvel Universe as Phase Three marches on towards Avengers: Infinity War. The Norse myth of Ragnarok has Odin fighting a giant wolf and a world serpent rising out of the Earth. Although that'd be cool, Thor: Ragnarok is going to take place mostly in space and, Odin was replaced by Loki in the previous film.
There's also more recent Thor comic book storyline called "Ragnarok" where Loki teams up with Surtur, an Asgardian fire demon, and attacks Asgard with weapons made from the same mold as Thor's hammer Mjolnir, but that didn't concern itself with any Infinity Stones, and Cate Blanchett as Surtur seems like horrible casting.
Sources have confirmed with Geek.com that the big bad of Thor: Ragnarok will be Hela, the Marvel comic book character who is the ruler of Hel and the realm of Niflheim. Considering Ruffalo let slip that Blanchett will play a baddie, it's probably safe to assume that she'll assume the role of Hela. She'll be her normal comic book self, complete with her cloak and power over the dead souls of the Nine Realms. Hela will make it to Asgard, where she'll be in cahoots with Tom Hiddleston's Loki, current motives unknown.
There has been speculation that the character of Hela could replace the physical embodiment of Death that Mad Titan Thanos falls in love with when he obtains the Infinity Gauntlet in the comic books on which the Avengers: Infinity War movies are loosely based. The general thought is that having a character representing Death suddenly appear in a big Avengers movie would be more confusing to audiences than a character they already know represents Death from a previous movie. Though now that Cate Blanchett is likely Hela, who wouldn't want this to be true just to see Blanchett and Josh Brolin (who will be playing Thanos) repel dozens of Avengers?
In Thor: Ragnarok, Hela and Loki will have set their plan well in motion by the time Thor gets wise to what's going on. Hela ends up creating the incident to Thor's journey in the film. According to our sources, when Thor confronts Hela, things do not go well. Not only does she banish Thor from Asgard, but she destroys Mjolnir!
If you remember Cate Blanchett as Galadriel from The Fellowship of the Ring (in that moment where she turns dark and terrible when she considers the power the One Ring would give her), then you know how awesome it's going to be to have Blanchett appear as a character with that amount of power in Asgard. Or, you could be a Tom Hiddleston fan who also liked Carol, and the idea of Blanchett and Hiddleston mustache-twirling through a space fantasy sounds like fun.
The point is that Cate Blanchett as Hela increases the probability of a win scenario for this movie by a large margin.
Thor: Ragnarok hits theaters November 3, 2017, and remember: the movie is far away, and things could change between now and then.
Be sure to check back with Geek.com soon for some more juicy Marvel exclusives. If you missed our previous ones, be sure to read up on how Spider-Man will enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe, how Odin will reappear in Thor: Ragnarok, and the crazy character that is going to appear in Guardians of the Galaxy 2.


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KARACHI: A representative delegation of Association of DHA Residents (ADR), led by President Capt (Retd) Kamal Al-Karimi visited Defense Housing Authority's main office on Thursday and held a meeting with DHA and CBC officials to discuss the problems faced by residents.
DHA Administrator Brig. Khalid Tirmizi said that DHA gives great importance to the residents' point of view and is open to any suggestions or criticism from them.
He said that the residents' suggestions will help DHA chalk out a viable strategy to address their problems effectively.
The delegation was informed that the DHA desalination plant is presently non-functional due to damage to the middle hollow shaft of the gas turbine rotor. Arrangements to fly in an alternate shaft have been finalized by Siemens Germany to make the plant operational as soon as possible.
The ADR delegation pointed out certain problems in the water supply in DHA, which resulted in uneven distribution and shortage of water in the area. The administrator informed the delegation that a number of proposals, including one for the distribution of water through overhead tanks, are being considered by DHA to improve the water supply system.
The delegation was informed that DHA is resuming work on the suspended Gizri flyover project although the design and length have been altered. The flyover will land close to the petrol pump on Gizri and the project will be completed by March 2009.
The ADR delegation was further informed that as a result of the study carried out by NESPAK on the smooth flow of traffic in DHA, Khayaban-e-Zamzama, Khayaban-e-Mujahid, Khayaban-e-Shamsheer and Khayaban-e-Shujaat will soon be made one way. The work of re-carpeting of roads in DHA will commence from the middle of next month.
The representatives of DHA Residents Society (DRS), DHA Society Residents Association (DSRA), Residents Association Phase-IV, DHA Association Coordination Committee (DACC), Seaview Residents Society, DHA Ph-VIII Residents Committee and Helpline Trust attended the meeting. app
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Christchurch Airport is stubbing out the practice
of visitors having a quick smoke around the airport
Three new designated smoking areas open today near
the almost-completed terminal, to filter out the problem of smokers
seeking protection from the elements.
CIAL Chief Executive Jim Boult says the smoking
areas respect people's rights to smoke and are a response to
"The health effects of cigarette smoking are well
known, but whether or not to smoke is a personal decision. We
provide large buildings constantly used by the public, so we need
to provide for smokers," he says.
"We have a new terminal building of which we,
airport stakeholders and Christchurch residents are very proud. The
visual and health and safety aspects of smokers huddled at the
terminal entrances and building frontage detract from this and from
everyone's experience here, so we have come up with this
"We are the Gateway to the South, the best New
Zealand has to offer and we are constantly looking for
ways to improve every person's experience on the airport
The smoking areas are positioned outside the new
terminal, the international arrivals hall and the Regional
Terminal. They are complemented by planter boxes and new
"Airports all over the world usually leave smokers a
space to smoke together, but it is often in a dark corner or
outside area. That's not what we want to offer visitors and
"We are offering smokers shelter from sun, rain and
wind, as well as seating and lighting for night use and
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Snack Attack by zinc Roe Games
In Snack Attack your goal is simple – keep the trick-or-treaters at bay. Don't let them reach the candy bowl! Tap the screen in line with the costumed kids, power-up and let go to fire. Give them enough candy and they'll move on. Use the special candy bombs to toss a fistful of candy in one go. Keep the candy flying and rack up the points! If you enjoy this game be sure to check out Stunt Wagon, Flying Furball and Arctic Shuffle. The Zimmer Twins is a fun children's website that invites kids to create and share their own animated stories.
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A day before their welterweight title unification bout, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. tipped the scale at the official weigh-in held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
147 pounds is their target weight limit and the results were; Pacquiao tipped-in at 145 lbs while Mayweather weighed-in at 146.
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For divorcing couples with children, the process of divorce is more than just dividing property and assets. Parents must also determine how they will split time with their children. They also have to find a way to work together when it comes to making important decisions about their child's life and future. This is known as the allocation of parental responsibilities (custody).
Approached with the wrong mindset, the allocation of parental responsibilities can turn into a legal battlefield, full of bitterness and contention. In these instances, a judge may make the decision. However, research has shown that families often fare better if they can find a way to develop their own parenting plan – one that fits the needs of their children and their family. The following will help you understand how to successfully create yours.
Why a Personalized Parenting Plan?
When the allocation of parental responsibilities is litigated in court, there are a number of factors that a judge considers to determine what the best interests of the child are. But you and your spouse know your child better than anyone. You understand their personality and their needs. And you know what your family's unique circumstances are. A traditional, cookie-cutter parenting plan may work, but it may not be the best option for all involved.
Time with Each Parent is Important
Children are often caught in the middle of divorce. They love both parents. They want to spend time with both parents. But they do not have a lot of say in the changes that are happening in their lives. The more you and your spouse can minimize the change, the better your child is likely to adjust. That means giving your child time to spend with you and your spouse, and ensuring that the time is not full of underhanded comments, parental competition, or continued arguments.
Types of Parenting Plans
Parents who develop their own parenting plan can pick and choose what works best for them and their family. They can do birdnesting, which keeps children in the family home with parents alternating in and out, according to their parenting schedule. They can do co-parenting, which could be set up in almost any way that directly benefits the child and ensures time with each parent. Or, if they are unable to get along, even for the sake of their child, they could choose a parallel parenting plan, which limits parental contact to minimize conflict.
Whatever parenting plan you choose, remember that the decision is based on what is best for your child. Arguments, bitterness, and contention need to be minimized. The relationship with each parent needs to be respected. And the goal should be to successfully raise a happy, healthy child.
How Our Family Law Attorneys Can Help
If you are planning on filing for divorce, Sullivan Taylor, Gumina & Palmer, P.C., P.C. can help you develop a parenting plan that fits your family's needs. We can protect the best interest of your child, and we can ensure that you and your spouse have considered all of your options. Contact our Naperville family law attorneys today to learn more. Call us at 630-665-7676.


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Emilia-Romagna Region has displayed several and diverse initiatives to promote the fashion district, above all the regional program "Fashion Valley" http://imprese.regione.emilia-romagna.it/industria-artigianato-cooperazioneservizi/temi/fashion-valley/fashion-valley
Thanks to "Fashion Valley", the Region enhances manufacture in Emilia Romagna not only through "Made in Italy" trademark, but also through the knowledge of all the quality factors which underpin production: history, experience and know-how of the firms involved and competencies implemented in the overall Regional production chain.
Fashion Valley's program aims at:
- supporting the innovation of the production chain also through the collaboration with other sectors
- enhancing the development of new markets
- investigating and analyzing the industry in support of the firms
- providing support to education and training
- creating partnerships and being involved in European and international networks
The Region calls for the local manufacturing system to work together, and supports their projects with substantial funding.
This is the aim of the call "Emilia Romagna Go Global 2016 – 2018" Attività 4.1.
Public call granting subsidies for projects promoting the regional production system on European and extra-European markets 2017-2018.
Other Institutions supporting projects for the Fashion production chain in Emilia-Romagna are:
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News Hub: Debt Worries Rattle Global Markets
Global stock markets and the euro drop as investors reassess the viability of plans to bail out Greece and fear knock-on effects in other nations. Dow Jones Newswires' Grainne McCarthy joins the News Hub to discuss.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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At the end of the academic year, we do a report to the Digital Projects Priorities Team on the past year's activities. This is an edited version of that report. It was a very productive year.
My thanks to the team: to Erica Rau and Kathy Howard in Digital Projects, who did such great work on so many projects; to Callie Coward and Anna Craft from Cataloging; and to Scott Hinshaw, Kathelene McCarty Smith, and everyone else in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives. Thanks as well to the department where Digital Projects "lives", Electronic Resources and Information Technology, for a level of support that goes far beyond the call of duty. We couldn't so many great projects without a real collaborative team and I really appreciate the way everyone pulls together to accomplish all our goals!
Special thanks to Stephen Catlett, who completes his tenure as Textiles, Teachers, and Troops project manager this week after doing some amazing work over the past two years. Stephen did an incredible job working with our partners and students on TTT as well as with community outreach on our CBR/local history grant project and coordination of displays and our launch event in April. We are very much going to miss having him around and hope we can rectify that situation soon!
Also, many thanks to this year's team of student workers (Evan Chu, Megan Coker, Tatiana Cox, Rachel Sanders, James Stewart, Phil White, and Hayley Whitehead) and our volunteers (Larry Daniels, Bernitae Reed, and Touger Vang). Your efforts are much appreciated and we couldn't do any of this without you!
An announcement of this year's approved and continuing projects will be available in the next few weeks.
2013-2014 Project Status:
- American Publishers Trade Bindings Phase 6: Complete and online (159 images).
- Campus Life Photos: In progress (322 images).
- CBR Project/Community Collections: Complete and online (1137 images).
- Class of 1951-present: Complete and online (11031 images).
- Creative Writing Manuscript Collections: Nearly complete, mostly online.
- Robert Watson Papers: Complete and online (5973 images).
- Randall Jarrell Papers: Nearly complete, partially online. Should be fully online by September. (6544 images to date).
- Ege Manuscripts: Complete and online (101 images).
- Home Economics Pamphlets Phase II: Scanned, should be online by early July at the latest (8184 images).
- Lois Lenski Rare Books: In progress. 13 books scanned. Should be online by fall. (625 images)
- Manuscript Collections Scrapbooks: In progress, many already online. Probably 15-20 remain. All should be online by December. (10159 images this year)
- Music and Theatre Productions: Nearly done, many already online. Should be completely online August at the latest (2843 images to date).
- Oral History Collections: Approximately 20 new interviews online.
- Textiles, Teachers, and Troops: Substantially complete and online (no annual breakdown, approximately 15000 images in-house plus 125000 items from the Charles Duncan McIver Records outsourced this year, two-year total of approximately 180000 images).
- Women Veterans Historical Project: Approximately 15 new oral histories online, 100 other items.
- DigitalGreensboro.org interface completed by ERIT Development Team.
- Civil Rights Greensboro Migration To CONTENTdm: Complete and should be live this summer.
- Women Vets Migration: Data dump and work plan complete. Target date for completion: early October.
- Worldcat Integration: Most collections now included in Worldcat.
- DPLA Submission: Most collections now included in Digital Public Library of America. We are currently the third largest contributor in the state (24641 items) with three times as much material as number four.
- Creation of CONTENTdm landing pages based on priority focus areas:
We now have 251003 digital files in CONTENTdm, our digital content management system, making 25243 items and spanning nearly a thousand years of history...although most are admittedly from the past 150 years or so.
Included are:
- 8243 newspapers
- 4968 photos/photo folders
- 2223 clippings/folders and items containing clipping
- 1529 pamphlets
- 928 pieces of correspondence
- 702 music scores


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Apple: The slaying of a tech hero
Apple's quarterly results this week drew a flood of reactions – almost all negative. Given how well the company did under almost any absolute measure, this is odd, though, for Wall Street, not necessarily surprising.
But the arc of Apple's rise and temporary fall tells a more troubling story about our current inability to maintain positive momentum about any aspect of our culture. We slay our heroes with casual abandon. Then we wring our hands about the absence of positive catalysts in our world today.
Apple's stock, already in relative free fall from an all-time high of more than $700 a share, plunged nearly 12 percent on the news. The company has now lost 35 percent of its value in four months – which represents an astonishing $235 billion. This decline alone is larger than all but three companies in the S&P 500, and larger than the gross domestic product of more than 140 countries.
That equity collapse was echoed by deeply pessimistic analysis of the company in the financial and tech media. Jim Cramer of CNBC railed against the post-Steve Jobs management under chief executive officer Tim Cook for failing to communicate a compelling vision. Others were less kind, dismissing the company as having no pipeline, no vision and little growth. "I think this is a broken company," said noted investor Jeffrey Gundlach.
Apple matters on multiple levels: it is still (barely) the world's largest company by market cap; it has been cited as a beacon of American innovation, led by a rare visionary, Steve Jobs, who resurrected the company he'd founded in the decade before his death; its products have been more than just hardware devices – consumers view them as a talisman, defining identities and allowing people to manifest their personal and professional lives as they chose. In the past few years, its stock price has been a proxy for that enthusiasm.
So what happened? What's most stunning about Apple's stunning and sudden fall is that it is unfolding in the context of still stunning actual results. Not only has the company not ceased growing, it is expanding at an astonishing clip. Its revenue in the fourth quarter of 2012 was $54.5 billion compared to $46.33 billion a year ago – which is a rise of 18 percent. Eighteen percent in a world economy that is barely growing 3 percent. It sold 47 million iPhones in the quarter compared to 37 million a year ago, and 23 million iPads compared to 15 million a year ago.
Yes, Apple earnings were flat, and stock market mavens point ominously to declining margins and shrinking earnings as telltale signs of trouble. But that isn't a sign of shrinking market share – which has been nearly fatal for former leaders such as Blackberry and Nokia. No, Apple increased its global share of smartphone sales in a market that is hardly robust – as Samsung, Apple's main competitor revealed as well. And issues of tight margins and spending more money to produce and market the same products are hardly Apple-specific and often given a pass by investors for companies such as Amazon or LinkedIn.
Still, Apple is not just another story of the bizarre way that Wall Street can value a company. It is that, but it's more as well. It seems like only yesterday that Apple was being hailed as the great company of our age, with its dying founder lionized in a best-selling biography as a genius not just of our time but of any time. It seems like only yesterday because it basically was only yesterday.
And before its recent image travails, Apple's sharp ascent was equally stunning – written off as dead by the late 1990s, it emerged as the tech innovator par excellence by the mid-2000s, invested with every virtue. Now, it is regarded as a has-been, hocking commoditized phones that any Chinese manufacturer can produce and tablets that every company in the world seems to be making, led by a CEO whose expertise is rationalizing the supply-chain. Hardly the stuff of dreams.
It's fair to say that Apple was never as transformative a social and technological force as myth would have it. And the slaying of heroes is hardly unique to our era. But the speed of lionizing and then annihilating is enough to take your breath away. It's the cultural equivalent of creative destruction. But unlike the economic version, it's hard to see where the creative element creeps in.
It is true that Apple functions in a ruthlessly competitive industry that is both fickle and short-term. Phones and tablets are ever-more essential but command about the same consumer loyalty as fashion: Cool one day, tired the next – even if you are a juggernaut like Apple.
Perhaps the market and the media are simply accelerating an inevitable process. You only get to be on top for a while, before the buzz and the business move elsewhere. In that sense, Apple is just an oversized corporate ingénue, with its brief moment fading and someone else soon to take its place, before the cycle begins again.
But the cultural message embedded in tearing Apple down is more pernicious than doing the same to a fading starlet. Beneath the furor, Apple continues to do its business exceedingly well and continues to give people what they need and want. For now, it is largely media and Wall Street that are writing Apple's obituary – not customers.
The message may prove to be correct, or it may not, but the complete lack of perspective about how hard it is to create something of worth compared to how easy it is to tear something down does not send a constructive signal or engender the better angels of our nature.
Apple was always likely to decline from its heights. But not because it failed, simply because others succeeded. In the story of Apple, and how we tell it, we have a metaphor for the story of the United States in recent years: a tendency to see the end, and then hasten it. Apple's success was an example of what the United States can do brilliantly. The recent reaction to it shows that we can also excel at self-immolation.
Better to nurture the former instincts. The other will lead nowhere, and fast.
PHOTO: A customer is helped by an Apple employee while looking over the iPad mini after the device went on sale at Apple's retail store in Palo Alto, California November 2, 2012. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
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Apple overhyping overpriced trinkets is not a positive catalyst in our world today
"Apple continues to do its business exceedingly well and continues to give people what they need and want."
What the doomsayers ignore is that it was only their own reading of the tea leaves that was "behind the curve" during Apple's" unprecedented ascent. That is why they have proven overly eager to "jump ship" to avoid being "caught" doing the same thing on the way down.
But Apple is NOT on "the way down". It is simply unable to maintain an unprecedented rate of financial growth. Well, duh? These people are shooting themselves in the foot, but they are also thus creating a unique opportunity for safe profit at a time this is exceeding rare.
What's happening with Apple's stock is simply a correction in the way the more sophisticated investors perceive the company's potential for growth. They've embraced a more realistic view.
This has little to do with the company's actual performance, which is pretty good.
In other words, the question to be asked is not why the stock is going down, but what were people thinking when they bought it at unrealistic prices.
Just watch CNBC, they spend about 1/5 of time talking about Apple and mostly negative. I just don't understand why they like to say Sammy is killing Apple? Sammy has more carriers (twice of Apple), and infrastructure in emerging market is extensive. According to Sammy's latest numbers, their mobile revenues only grew 4% sequentially. This is mind boggling that they only grew so little during the holiday quarter. Yet media was pumping how Sammy is taking over Apple.
Apple's problem is that they are pretty much saturated in high end market. They need to be more agile. One model change a year is not going to help. They can build 3 tier iPhone strategy, high-end, mid range, and low end (for non contract type market). Apple needs to excite geeks and pros by high end iPhones and offset the gross margin squeeze due to the low-end model. Sammy introduced 38 phones last year. If anything, Apple is being beat by Sammy's agility.
As often "Quoted" by the News Media " If it BLEEDS, it Leads"
Yes Fame is fleeting and yes Apple has enjoyed it's 15 minutes of Fame….
Now it's Samsungs TURN to feel the Warmth/Glare of the spotlights !!!
Perhaps this is a Blessing for Apple so it can RE-FOCUS on innovating excellent products, bring it's manufacturing back to the U.S.A. and someday re-ignite the publics/shareholders excitement.
Hey Apple!!!! Remember…. the CUSTOMER and attention to GREAT customer Service is # 1 on your TO DO list.
Whatever the reasons for Wall Street's downward reassessment of Apple, the foundation that Apple was built on has been neglected and has eroded beyond repair.
Apple succeeded mainly by the support of the graphic professionals & enterprises that it used to serve so well with solid workstations and reliable notebooks. This is what made Apple a big success.
Hand held devices, iPhones & iPads, are transient fads, toys, just like fashionable attires, with their in and out of fashion cycles. Great for quick profits, but unsustainable for the long run.
Around 2005 Apple's workstations & notebooks quality & reliability began to fail, and Apple's response to frustrated costumers was inadequate and arrogant. Apple was too bussy on their latest iToys.
Professionals had to struggle, and still do, to find the causes & solutions with faulty expensive Apple products without any help from Apple.
Former Apple die-hards have been quietly & quickly switching over to superior PC's and for 1/4 the cost of overpriced and inferior Apple lemons.
Even if Apple was able to refocus and regain confidence in reliability and with competitive pricing, it has left too sour an experience to bring back its former loyal customers.
I think all of this noise about Apple's share value is just that; noise. They did not suddenly become this lurching, awkward copycat making less than good products because Steve Jobs died and the iPhone 5 doesn't chop your carrots, have a built in helicopter rotor, and tie ties for you.
The assertion one of the commenters made about people switching to PCs is laughable. The PC environment is not stable enough to do what needs doing. Maybe in audio, I know a lot of people use things like Pro-Tools. Outside of audio, Mac still dominates. My best friend is a successful freelance designer/photographer and uses Mac with the Adobe suite because it's far more stable on Mac than it ever was on his PC. The company I worked for recently bought their ad department graphic designer an iMac for the same reason and he's produced great work on it. These are anecdotes, but then again, so are the absurd assertions that creative industries are fleeing Mac in droves.
It is true that the smartphone and tablet market is super volatile, but I think it's a good thing for Apple to be involved in it. They are forced to be agile and innovative. Also, while it may be volatile, the so-called "iToy" market is not going anywhere. People who can't afford full blown computers are using tablets and the like. When the day comes that tablet sized computers will be able to run advanced programs like Adobe and so on (it will come), Apple needs to be ready and be able to provide the same stable experience that's made it popular among people who want to get creative things done.
This post coming from someone who went from PC to Linux and, after hating Apple for a while, started using a MacPro and will never go back to anything else.
Computers and computer toys and even the things that these toys can do, do not account for the majority of our economy. Computers cannot build things and grow food and defend the country. At best they are tools and as such they are failures. Apples, PCs or whatever, they are junk. Now, most americans would never know this since they are not bright enough.
Steve Jobs was driven to make money, to make money no matter what, and he pursued this from the very first business deal he made, which was dishonest. Look around and note that millions of people think that having the latest Apple product is one of the most important aspects of their lives. This tomfoolery is a coup that Apple created. All of this excitement about Mr. Jobs is misplaced. Greed is not a virtue, even when it gets joined to a powerful intellect.
Look at Amazon. Just think about how it's possible for a company to lose money over consecutive financial quarters and still be the darling of Wallstreet.
Now cast an eye toward Apple. They're consistently making money. They have done so for the past five years and have done so with real, physically crafted products. They've been innovative for so long that any slight iteration on an existing product is considered a sign of a company that has lost its innovative spirit with the passing of its founder (has the trusty PC been as ridiculed over the years for its slight design terations or spec improvements? Nope. But neither have cars or planes or trains). Not to mention that the fact that the company has already upended the music business, mobile telecommunications business and kickstarted the post pc (they coined it) era with the iPhone and iPad. They've redifined what a mobile device is capable of leaving competitors scrambling and at least one doing its very best to emulate it from the ground up leading to much deserved lawsuits. All this from a company that has lost billions of share value because they "missed" some Wallstreet analysts imagined forecasts which they pulled out of their asses.


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Have a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=tgehqHxRacg&feature=youtube_ gdata_player - Samba Malato
that are typically used. Afro-Peruvian music stared when the slave trade brought Africans of diverse cultural backgrounds to Peru. The music is a blend of all these cultures- Spanish, Andean, and African. Today it is still heard in coastal villages in Peru as well as on recordings and in convert halls around the globe.
There are three very cool percussion instruments played along side guitar or other melodic instruments. These include the Cajon, which is a large wooden box played with the hands while sitting on it; the Cajita, a small wooden box hung around the neck and struck with a stick while the lid is also opened and closed rhythmically; and finally, the Quijada, a donkey jaw bone played by scraping the teeth and striking the bone with your fist. The Quijada is the predescessor to the vibraslap! Here is a video that shows them all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uePo2cplb9I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
There are different genres of Afro-Peruvian music, which are identified by the Cajon rhythms, and variations there-of. Fiesto is festive and heard in a 6/8 meter. Landon is slow and sensual and heard in a 4/4 meter. The habanera is flirtatious and also heard in 4/4. Some groups have even added in horns to create an Afro-Peruvian jazz.
We learned songs in the workshop like MARIA, a call and response, The call response part of Samba Malato and Los Cubiertos, a full song. Even if you just have your students listen to this music and discover the layers, or give a little history, it can add a lot of fun to a lesson.
One more video just for fun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SqLMtZErmI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
One more video just for fun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SqLMtZErmI&feature=youtube_gdata_player


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An Interview with a real teacher who's done this!
Following on from the many positive responses from my previous article on video streaming, this month I thought I'd do something a little different.
It's one thing to hear from me just how cool and easy video streaming is, but what about hearing from an educator who has done this for themselves.
A real-world example of what someone can expect when they begin video streaming for the first time.
Bill Whicker is the Technology Coordinator at Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District in Ketchikan, Alaska, and I first met him when I visited there in 2013.
Video streaming and Eduvision have literally transformed the lives of the students and the community too. Together, they have united people over enormous distances, and in doing so, they have created a fantastic environment for learning and achieving at all levels.
I sent Bill a list of questions, typical of those asked by teachers who are considering deploying video streaming and Eduvision for the first time, and over the next couple of months we'll cover Bill's answers.
I'd like to take this opportunity to extend a huge 'thank you' to Bill who has kindly taken the time to share his own experiences with other educators across the nation! You can take a look at what they've accomplished in their Eduvision portal here.
I'll end here, and begin the first part of the interview with Bill.
Q: How easy is it for students to use tablets/iPads for video production?
A: "I don't have a lot of experience with this, but we do have a class where the students are using these devices for video production. I think, more than anything, it is the access that students have to their own devices that make it easy for them to create using tablets or phones."
Q: What are the benefits for the student and the teacher?
A: "Access to devices and portability are probably benefits."
Q: Tell me why you think video streaming has been particularly beneficial for your students?
A: Video streaming provides a number of benefits to our students, school and community including:
• Real-world work experience utilizing skills that can be used in the industry.
• An opportunity to teach the soft-skills needed to be successful
• It provides an arena where students are producing for the public, but are still allowed to make some mistakes in relatively "low-stakes" situations.
• It provides our community with access to our district's events.
• This is great PR.
Q: Tell me how students have responded to, and embraced, live stream video productions.
A: "I have a small group of students who have responded well, but it has taken some time for them to appreciate the opportunities that the technologies have offered them."
Q: How has video streaming benefited your school?
• "We are able to share our successes to a wider audience.
• The successes we have had in our video streaming productions have become an expectation of our basketball program. We need to expand this to include other events, which will hopefully provide the recognition that will generate more financial support for our program.
• Our local TV station picks up our stream and broadcasts live games on a local channel."
Q: How has video streaming benefitted your community?
• "It has allowed our elders to view events from their homes on computer and local TV.
• It has allowed parents to download recorded streams of our events.
• It has allowed relatives from around the world to view the events that kids in their family are participating in."
Q: What tips would you give them?
A: "Gather as much information as possible.
There is no "free puppy". If it says it's free, there is always a catch."
Once again, I'd like to thank Bill for taking the time out of his busy schedule to very kindly answer these questions.
To emphasize what Bill ends with, there really is no 'free puppy' as he puts it. Supposedly free video portals such as YouTube may seem harmless enough on face value, however, there's ALWAYS a catch.
Furthermore, the sting in the tail is usually very serious. You never usually see it coming, and it's one which will usually 'bite an educator hard' once the mistakes have been made.
Don't risk the safety of your students, and your career reputation, just for the sake of getting something supposedly for free!
Brian Sterling-Vete spent over a decade with BBC TV news, he's a British author, Guinness World Record Holder, and film maker. He has worked extensively on both sides of camera, and even worked as a stunt performer for several years.
In addition, Brian also uses the skills he learned while he was with BBC TV News, to coach leadership and celebrities how to stay safe if they're faced with a crisis, and a subsequent media attack.
He encourages input and comment from readers. You can reach Brian Sterling-Vete at [email protected]


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Getting my brow done at 12!!!
Okay well I'll start by telling you about me. I'm 12/f from ont. and just about an hour ago I got my eyebrow pierced. It's Oct.11th. I decided on getting my brow pierced because when I got my cartilage done last November everyone liked it and say there going to get it done but so far only one person has. I like being an original I dress tacky and do my hair wierd and stuff. I actually wanted and still want my navel done but thought that it wouldn't be such a great Idea since I'm a swimmer.
I was on Bme loooking on eyebrow info and stuff 'cause it has always appeled to me. I really wanted it done so I decided so have the guts and ask my Mum. I went to the kitchen after dinner and helped cleaned the table, Then I asked "Hey mum, uuuummm... well you'll probrally say no way but.... Can I get my eyebrow pierced?" She looked at me strange and said. " I really don't think this is a good idea but it's not a tatoo it's not permanant so OKAY!!!" I said thank-you so much. and got so excited I grabbed the phone book and ran up stairs. (I think she said yes because my older bro got a tatoo. and were really close me and mum.) I was up in my room looking for a good place. This place I saw which was called carnage looked great I called up and asked for an appointment they said I would need my mum's signature to get it done. They said that on Sunday (thanksgiving) they would be giving free piercings just pay for the jewllery. So I decided to come today. I told my friend about it and she decided to come and get her nose done w/ me. So today before I went I got my mum to sign a piece of paper saying that I could get It done. We got to Carnage arts I was very very impressed by the place.Very clean The floor was white the piercing chair's were in the back and they were white. There was a whole bunch of floresent lights and inflatable couches chairs etc. in the waiting room. They gave us a # mine was 41 and Monica's was 42.They usually wouldn't do that but it was for the 'thanksgiving piercing give away!'
About 20 min. later the # went up to 200 because so many people wanted free piercing. They called 40-45 and me and Monica got nervous. We were sent to the same person to get our brow and nose done. We filled out forms showed our permission thing, and chose out jewllery. I chose a silver 14ga ring w/ a silver ball. Monica chose a cool like 18ga silver stud for her nose. Nickola (the piercer) starilazzesd the stuff and told me to go first which was fine because Monica wanted me to go first. I went and sat in the chair I had butterflies in my stomach and Monica held my hand. Nickola cleaned my brow an dasked where I wanted it she marked it off and got the neddle She told me to close my eyes and take deep breaths So I did all of a sudden I felt pressure. and then she put in the ring the jewllery didn't really even hurt. The worst part was the clamp. I sat up and looked at it I was awsome she gave me cleaning stuff etc. and I waited for Monica. She said her's hurt abit. she got her cleanning stuff etc.Shw told us what to do to clean it. She was so cool she had her brow pierced twice an her tounge. She was really nice. We paid $20 and we left. Now it hurts a bit more but it's all great. Monica says her nose is fine. Now I get to show all my relatives my eybrow tonight for thanksgiving. all my friends will be jelous probrally. and I can't wait to show them. Oh in case your wondering I got my right brow done. I think that if you would like to get your eyebrow pierced then you should go ahead and get it done but make sure that you go to a professinol place and get a good piercer make sure the starilizze the stuff and tell you how to clean it etc. If you have any questions make sure you ask them and get a good awnser. And enjoy the beautiful piercing. Her is some questions I asked: will it hurt? A: It depends on the person it may hurt alot or you may not feel it mine didn't hurt. Q: what should I do if i want it changed or have a problem? A: call us up and tell us what's wrong and well try to fix it or if you want it changed call for an appointment. Have a great time doing it!!! :) LOVE you all Raine
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Seeks alternate site for relocating Central Jail Srinagar
SRINAGAR, JULY 04: Chief Minister, Ms Mehbooba Mufti today asked the State's Home Department and the Police to expedite the review of the cases of youth who have been booked on charges of stone-pelting between 2008 and 2014. She said such youth who took to the wrong path inadvertently have to be given an opportunity to restart their lives as productive citizens so that they can rebuild their careers.
"The Home Department and the Police should expedite the process of taking a holistic review of the cases registered against the youth between 2008 and 2014 for stone-pelting and decide on merits how many of such cases can be withdrawn to give these young boys an opportunity to begin their lives afresh and live as productive citizens," the Chief Minister said while chairing a high-level meeting here this morning regarding bringing about Reforms in J&K's Prisons.
Financial Commissioner Planning & Development, Mr B B Vyas, Director General Police, Mr K Rajendra, Director General Prisons, S P Vaid, Principal Secretary Home, Mr R K Goyal, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr Navin Kumar Choudhary, Administrative Secretaries of Industries and Commerce, Education, Health, Social Welfare, Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports, Culture and Tourism besides heads of departments were present in the meeting.
The Chief Minister has also sought a report, within two days, about the nine youth presently lodged in various jails in cases pertaining to stone-pelting, as was revealed in the meeting by the Director General Prisons.
The Chief Minister asked the Director General Police to take up the matter regarding deportation of a deaf and dumb and mentally deranged Pakistani national to his country who is lodged in a jail in the State for having accidentally crossed the LoC. "Why has been the person kept in jail for so long, when he is not only deaf and dumb, but mentally deranged also," she asked and said the State and its law enforcing agencies shouldn't be seen acting in such a callous manner and be more humane in their approach while dealing with cases of such physically-challenged persons.
Stressing the need for review and upgradation of the Jail Manual in the State, the Chief Minister said the review, which is already over due, should be aimed at making the prisons centres of reformation and not the places of punishment.
The Chief Minister also called for identification of alternate site in the periphery of Srinagar city for shifting of Central Jail Srinagar from its existing location in Kathidarwaza area of Shahr-e-Khaas. She asked Director General Prisons to coordinate with the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir for identification of an alternate site and come up with a report within seven days. She said once the Central Jail Srinagar is shifted from the present location, the existing establishment in the Old City could be converted into a multi-utility recreational-cum-sports facility while some part could be also developed as an exclusive Handicrafts Promotion Centre.
The Chief Minister said directions have already been given regarding identification of suitable land in the winter capital also for shifting of the Central Jail Jammu from the core area of the City.
Stressing the need for imparting skill training to the jail inmates, the Chief Minister said the Government would bring the jails under the purview of the integrated Skill Development Mission. She said Financial Commissioner Planning & Development Department and Commissioner Secretary Industries and Commerce Department will coordinate the skill training of the jail inmates by establishing institutionalized Skill Development Centres in various jails. "We should try to make productive use of the time the inmates spend in prisons by imparting them education and skill training so that once they come out, they gel with the social milieu immediately and earn respectable livelihood," she said and added that efforts should be made to match the trades in which training is imparted to the needs of the society so that on release from prisons these individuals can not only adjust in the society but also get gainful employment.
Ms Mehbooba said some of the jail inmates can be also trained in making furniture and furnishings and if they are able to produce quality products, the Government Departments will be asked to make maximum purchases of furniture and furnishings from such jails which have developed the capacity for large-scale production.
The Chief Minister also asked the Youth Services and Sports Department to create additional sports and recreational facilities in the jails for the inmates. She said the period spent by under-trials and convicts in jails must be utilized to the benefit of the inmates.
Responding to the plea of Director General Prisons that there were not many qualified teachers and Vocational Training Instructors available in jails, the Chief Minister asked the Commissioner Secretary Education and Secretary Technical Education to provide the necessary staff to all the jails and also design a sustainable and workable educational curriculum for the inmates. She also called for providing adequate medical, correctional and supervisory staff to all the jails. She also called for organizing regular health awareness programmes in the jails.
The Chief Minister said the new Jail at Pulwama, to be opened soon, should become a model of reformation and a model prison instead of being a traditional jail.
Earlier, the Director General of Prisons, S P Vaid, through a detailed Powerpoint Presentation, informed the Chief Minister about the status of various jails, the number of inmates, infrastructure requirement and other issues related to prison management in the State.
The DG Prisons said there are presently 14 jails in J&K, out of which nine are in Jammu and five in Kashmir with a total lodging capacity of 3031 inmates. He said three new jails are coming up at Pulwama, Bhaderwah and Kargil.
The DG said 2367 persons including 2268 males and 99 females are lodged in various jails of the state. These include 192 inmates involved in militancy related cases and 2170 in common law cases.
The DG informed that under the Reformation Programme, 97 jail inmates are enrolled in basic literacy programme, 103 under adult continuing education programme and 85 under IGNOU courses. He said 39 inmates also appeared in university and board examinations in 2015.
Similarly, he said under the vocational trainings 30 inmates have been trained in cutting and tailoring, 20 in carpentry, 68 in cloth manufacturing, 17 in carpet weaving, 14 in candle making, 17 in electrician, one in house wiring, 3 in Darri making, 11 in paper bag making, 16 in hair cutting, 25 in cooking, one in knitting, 24 in pipe band making, 5 in crewel work and 5 in confectionary.


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Bruce Bartlett is a decent person and an honest economist. A former Reagan and Bush I administration official, he now regularly berates Republican politicians for making nonsensical assertions about the economy. However in his NYT blogpost today he may go a bit overboard in telling readers:
"The projected surplus was primarily the result of two factors. First was a big tax increase in 1993 that every Republican in Congress voted against, saying that it would tank the economy. This belief was wrong. The economy boomed in 1994, growing 4.1 percent that year and strongly throughout the Clinton administration.
The second major contributor to budget surpluses that emerged in 1998 was tough budget controls that were part of the 1990 and 1993 budget deals."
This leaves out the main cause of the budget surpluses at the end of the decade, the stock bubble.
This point can be easily seen from examining the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections from May of 1996 for the 2000 fiscal year. At that time, the Clinton tax increases were all passed into law, so these were fully incorporated into the budget projects. So were the spending restraints.
So what did CBO tell us? Its projections show that in the spending constraint scenario (discretionary spending would only rise in step with inflation) the deficit would be equal to 2.7 percent of GDP in 2000 (Summary Table 3). Instead we had a budget surplus of 2.4 percent of GDP (Table 1-1), a shift of 5.1 percentage points.
In today's economy this would be equivalent to an unexpected drop in the annual deficit of $780 billion. This shift $780 billion drop was not due to policy changes but rather to the extra growth and tax collections spurred by the stock bubble.
On the tax side, we see that CBO projected that revenue would be equal to 18.6 percent of GDP in 1996 (Table 2-3). It turned out that revenue in 2000 was equal to 20.6 percent of GDP (Table 1-2). This differences of 2 percentages of GDP was not due to any change in tax policy, it was due to faster than expected growth and the large amount of capital gains taxes collected as a result of the bubble. (It is likely that some of the capital gains showed up as ordinary income and were taxed as ordinary income. This could explain the jump in the statistical discrepancy at the end of the 90s and the unexplained rise in tax collections in those years.)
On the spending side, non-interest outlays ended up being 15.9 percent of GDP (Table 1-2), they had been projected at 18.2 percent of GDP in 1996 (Table 2-5). While there were some factors that lead to lower than expected spending, most notably slower than projected growth in health care costs, by far the biggest reason for the drop in spending as a share of GDP was the faster than projected growth in GDP.
In 1996, GDP was projected to be $9,094 billion in 2000 (Table 1-2). It ended up being $9,828 billion (Table 1-2). With GDP 8.1 percent higher than projected, the same level of nominal spending would be 8.1 percent less measured as a share of GDP. This means that if we spent exactly the same number of dollars projected in 1996, then spending would have ended up as 16.4 percent of GDP in 2000 rather than the 18.2 percent projected.
The remaining factor was the lower than projected interest payments. Because deficits were lower than projected in the years 1996-1999, interest on the debt only cost us 2.3 percent of GDP rather than the 3.1 percent projected in 1996.
In short, the hero of the budget surplus story was the stock bubble, not President Clinton's tax cuts and budget restraint. This is important not only in dishing out praise for the surplus, it is also essential to a proper understanding of the economy.
Bubbles are not sustainable, by definition. The stock bubble began to burst in 2000. By the summer of 2002 stocks had fallen to roughly half of their peak values destroying $10 trillion in wealth. This gave us a recession which, although officially short and mild, led to the longest period without net job creation since the Great Depression (until the current downturn).
The ending of this bubble was the biggest factor turning the surplus into a deficit. The Bush tax cuts were very much secondary in this picture, as were his wars and the Medicare drug plan. The Bush administration might deserve serious grief for all three of these, but they were not the story of the end of the Clinton era surpluses. The end of the stock bubble was the end of the budget surpluses and that one cannot be blamed on President Bush.
[Addendum: I see from the comments that I may have to do some real Clinton bashing. A few simple points here.
1) The 1996 projections took account of all the steps Clinton took to balance the budget. All the deficit reduction beyond this was due to the bubble.
2) The pick up in productivity growth, which began in the middle of 1995 (long before balanced budget glory), continued all through the Bush years. Anyone who wants to claim Clinton's balanced budgets spurred the surge in productivity, which was then destroyed by Bush deficits has a really big quarrel with the data. The story doesn't fit at all.
3) The deficit did fall sharply under President Bush as the economy recovered from the 2001 recession, until the collapse of the housing bubble brought on the recession in 2008. Yes, the deficit was brought down by housing bubble driven growth. On the other hand, in the absence of this bubble, the downturn from the collapse of the Clinton era stock bubble would have lasted longer. Blame who you like on that one, but them's the facts.
Anyhow, I'm not getting paid by either side in this story. I have been using the same analysis of the economy for the last 15 years. If that proves inconvenient for supporters of President Obama or Clinton that is their problem.]


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Yellowhead County is located In West Central Alberta, with its eastern boundary about 90 kilometres west of Edmonton and its western edge at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. It is a predominately rural region with two urban service centers (Hinton and Edson), 10 hamlets and many country residential subdivisions throughout the region.
The active outdoors person has plenty of opportunity for touring, hiking, biking, camping, fishing, hunting, snowmobiling, ATVing, white water rafting, caving, guiding or skiing – as well as taking part in community festivals and events. With a vast variety of terrain and pristine surroundings, Yellowhead County caters to all types of hikers. Hiking trails in our canyons and hoodoos offer a unique Alberta perspective. You can camp in one of seven County campgrounds, or our numerous Provincial Parks or Wildland Parks where swimming, boating, and some of the best fishing in the province abound. There are also a multitude of private campgrounds in the County.
Don't just visit during the summer months. Yellowhead County is a wonderland during the winter season. The County's spectacular cross-country ski trails and snowmobile areas make for outdoor winter fun for the whole family.
Yellowhead County is becoming a seasonal vacation destination with many urban dwellers purchasing their vacation homes to take advantage of the river and mountain vistas.
Yellowhead County is now a Partner in the Forest Recreation Management Association.


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EXCLUSIVE: Lourdes Leon Confesses That She Loves To Raid Cool Mom Madonna's Closet!
Find out what items the teen loves to try on from her mom's cool collection of clothing & accessories!
Lourdes Leon seems so down to earth, but as sweet as she may be she definitely isn't your average teenager! She already started her career designing with some help from her superstar mom Madonna and balances work with her day-to-day role as a public school student in NYC, which she said she "loves" — but the thing I'm definitely most envious of is the access she has to her mom's amazing wardrobe! If I walked around in Madonna's closet I don't know what I would want to try on first — but Lourdes already found a weakness for her mom's covetable shoe collection!
"All of her shoes are ridiculous," the teen said at the celebration of the fall Material Girl Line at Macy's in Herald Square on Sept. 22. "I love trying on her Louboutin's!" Considering the countless pairs her mom owns, I can't say I blame her — although I think I was secretly hoping she would say she loves to dress up in her old performance get-ups!
While Madonna may be an iconic celebrity, last night she was acting more like a mom than a mega-star, standing right next to Lourdes on the pink carpet and joking around with her daughter while the duo answered questions about the line and their experience working together. "Everything looks good on her! I'm kind of jealous," Madonna said, before admitting that she definitely tells Lourdes what she is and isn't allowed to wear.
And although Lourdes has such a cool sense of style for a 14-year-old, Madonna admits she dressed nothing like her daughter at her age! While Lourdes scowled and giggled at the thought of her mom's teenage get-ups, Madonna said she was probably wearing, "Brown corduroy bell-bottoms." The a-lister has definitely come a long way!


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As soon as I installed the MUI classes Toolbar.mcc and Toolbar.mcp 15.11 [MorphOS], YAM stopped to run.
YAM starts, opens the warning window of all 2.5 Developer versions, but, when I click "Go on", closes this window, does not open the About window, and gives no further sign of life. Probably the task freezes or expect forever something that does not happen… SnoopDOS says that the last active action done by YAM is a successful call to Toolbar.mcc; then nothing else is reported.
I deleted the new versions of the classes and replaced Toolbar.mcc and Toolbar.mcp 15.10 [MorphOS] into classes/MUI. After a reset YAM was again able to run. In the same way I've verified that YAM runs even with Toolbar.mcc and Toolbar.mcp 15.11 [020]. So the bug is definitively in the 15.11 MorphOS version of these classes.
Actually this is not a bug of YAM, but the current maintainer of these MUI classes is Jens Langner, so it seemed appropriate to post the news here.
Cheers, Dr.Morbius_FP


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Teenagers may be notoriously concerned about popularity, but Taylor Swift has nothing to worry about. Already, she has toured with Rascal Flatts, George Strait, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Brad Paisley. Her debut album has sold more than 1 million copies, and she nabbed a CMT Music Award as favorite new artist. (She takes the trophy with her on tour so her fans can hold it, too.) During a recent visit to the CMT Radio studio, the upbeat singer-songwriter talked about her fondness for dresses, her new computer and why she's OK with being single.
CMT: What's it like touring with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill?
Taylor Swift: They're so nice. I seriously love them. They're so approachable. It's unbelievable because they're so down-to-earth about everything. I mean, headliners are usually really, really nice to the opening acts. I've been lucky to be on such amazing tours and to tour with George Strait and Rascal Flatts. They've all been so sweet, but Tim and Faith are so great because they make sure that every single person on the tour has met them. They make sure that everybody feels comfortable, and I love them. It's one huge, happy awesome family.
After my first show, when I came back to my dressing room, there was this box and it was wrapped up, and there was a note. It was two boxes, actually. One has a candle in it and it smells awesome, but that's on my bus. I can't wear that around. (laughs) And in the other box was this charm bracelet, and the front of the note said, "Be Remarkable," and in the inside it said, "Taylor you've already accomplished this. Love, Tim and Faith." I'm like, "Oh, my gosh!" I love them. I seriously love them. I'm such a super fan.
They loved your song, "Tim McGraw," of course.
I think that's part of the reason why I'm out there — because of the song. (laughs) But don't tell anybody. Keep that on the down low.
What kind of advice did they give you?
Faith has told me that she really likes the way that I dress. She's like, "You never expose too much." I think that's one of the coolest things someone can say — that they like the way you dress — because that says so much. I've never had a stylist do things for me and pick out what I was gonna wear and what my look was gonna be. It was really nice of her to say that. That's one of the coolest things I think she's said to me.
Do you get a lot of time to shop?
Actually, I don't get a lot of time to shop, but when I do come back to Nashville, I consider those bona fide shopping days. … Dresses are my weakness, seriously. Lately, I'll get jeans or skinny jeans or whatever if I'm just hanging out, but most of the time I'm really comfortable in dresses. If I see a really cute dress, I have to buy it.
You've got a new toy, right?
I did! Yeah, I'm having a blast. I got this new laptop. It's the only [big] thing that I bought. I was talking to my mom and I was like, "I really want a new computer." The computer I have is five years old and weighs 50 pounds. I thought maybe I should get a new computer, and she was like, "Taylor, you can get a new computer." I was so excited. I've been obsessed with it for the past two weeks, and I've been taking pictures and putting them up on MySpace and doing all kinds of stuff like video editing.
You wrote "Teardrops on My Guitar" about a guy named Drew. Has he actually called you?
Yes, and he's left me five different voicemails. Like, "Hey, it's Drew. How are you Taylor? I haven't talked to you in like a year and a-half. How are you?" I think he knows exactly how I am because I think he's heard my song on the radio. I don't want to call him back and be like, "Hey it's Taylor, that girl who wrote the song about how I'm in love with you and how I wanted you to break up with your girlfriend." That would be the most awkward conversation ever! I've been too pathetic to call him back. … I figure I'm saving guys the trouble of dating me because I would be the most inconvenient girlfriend ever. I figured me being single right now is not only good for me, but it's good for the guys. I'm saving them the trouble of dating a girl who would never be able to see them.
You've been dreaming about this life. Is it everything you thought it would be?
It is so much better. I never really thought it was gonna happen. I am one of those people who wants to do the work for something and want it so bad and work for it, but not expect anything. I was never that little kid who was walking around saying, "Hey, you guys, I'm going to be famous some day. Just wait." Because I didn't know that, and I've always tried to be very practical and very logical about things like that. Never once did I say, "I'm gonna make it, I'm gonna be famous, I'm gonna be a country singer."
Instead, I did the work and tried to make it happen myself without promising anybody anything that I didn't know was gonna happen. When I go out in public now and a trip to Wal-Mart turns into an autograph signing, it's more than I ever could have asked for. People come up and say they like my music. That's all I ever wanted. I don't see how that could ever get old. I seriously love it so much, and these people are the reason why I'm here, so I ought to say hi to them and sign their piece of paper in Wal-Mart.


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- Title
- Working towards more effective implementation, dissemination and scale-up of lower-limb injury-prevention programs : Insights from community Australian football coaches
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- McGlashan, Angela; Verrinder, Glenda; Verhagen, Evert
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- 2018
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- Text; Journal article
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- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164669
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- vital:13105
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- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15020351
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- Disseminating lower-limb injury-prevention exercise programs (LL-IPEPs) with strategies that effectively reach coaches across sporting environments is a way of preventing lower-limb injuries (LLIs) and ensuring safe and sustainable sport participation. The aim of this study was to explore community-Australian Football (community-AF) coaches' perspectives on the strategies they believed would enhance the dissemination and scale-up of LL-IPEPs. Using a qualitative multiple case study design, semi-structured interviews with community-AF coaches in Victoria, Australia, were conducted. Overall, coaches believed a range of strategies were important including: coach education, policy drivers, overcoming potential problem areas, a 'try before you buy approach', presenting empirical evidence and guidelines for injury-prevention exercise programs (IPEPs), forming strategic collaboration and working in partnership, communication and social marketing, public meetings, development of a coach hotline, and targeted multi-focused approaches. A shift to a culture whereby evidence-based IPEP practices in community-AF will take time, and persistent commitment by all involved in the sport is important. This will support the creation of strategies that will enhance the dissemination and scale-up of LL-IPEPs across community sport environments. The focus of research needs to continue to identify effective, holistic and multi-level interventions to support coaches in preventing LLIs. This could lead to the determination of successful strategies such as behavioural regulation strategies and emotional coping resources to implement LL-IPEPs into didactic curricula and practice. Producing changes in practice will require attention to which strategies are a priority and the most effective. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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- MD Multidisciplinary; Australian football; Coaching; Implementation and dissemination; Lower-limb injury; Sport injury prevention
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The hotly anticipated book by Hillary Clinton was bound to cause controversy.
Within 24 hours, Amazon reportedly removed the reviews of What Happened by 900 people who instead of discussing the work's merits, used the retailer's website to either praise or criticise the former US presidential candidate.
The website Quartz said that according to its analysis, only 338 of the book's 1,600 reviews were by people with verified purchases of the book, via Amazon.com.
While the work could have been bought elsewhere, most Amazon reviews are from people who purchase books on the site.
As an example, among the reviewers were R.J. Parker who wrote: "It's pathetic and immature that Clinton can't accept personal responsibility for her loss. She was a terrible candidate and had a hard time defeating Bernie".
Another reviewer disagreed, saying: "Love this woman in all her candour, playfulness, defiance and brilliance. #ImWithHer #StillWithHer #AlwaysWithHer".
Amazon did not confirm if reviews had been deleted but there were far fewer of them several hours later on Wednesday (13 September), with only 460 left, all verified purchasers, the Telegraph reported.
Jonathan Karp, president of Simon & Schuster, said: "It seems highly unlikely that approximately 1,500 people read Hillary Clinton's book overnight and came to the stark conclusion that it is either brilliant or awful."
In the 469-page book the former first lady compares Donald Trump's presidency to that of the Soviet Union and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, saying: "for Trump, as with so much he does, it's about simple dominance."
The book, which is already number one in the US Amazon book charts, argues that Trump has created a "war on truth."