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What's Your Fitness Personality?By Jude Buglewicz
Do you have more trouble choosing a workout program or starting the one you just bought? Are you an early morning exerciser or do you Push Play whenever you can grab a few minutes of uninterrupted time? See which of the six fitness personality types best describes youthen find out what you can do to ensure you get your best results.
The Program Collector
You saw a Slim in 6® infomercial and eagerly ordered the product only to stick it on a shelf unopened once you got it. Same with Power 90®. Ditto Turbo Jam®. Your intentions were good at the time, but now you studiously avoid even looking at the DVD covers, let alone taking the discs out. It's a lot easier to keep watching TV and let time go drifting by.
Most common fitness lament: "I just don't feel like it."
Pitfall: No motivation. Or is it intimidation? Fear? You've never exercised regularly or you're so out of practice, you're overwhelmed by the amount of work you think it will take. You may not have much confidence in your ability to pull it off.
Start with . . . Taking it one day at a time. Break down your overall goal of losing 35, 50, or 100 pounds into smaller, more easily attainable goals; work out for 10 minutes a day, then 15, 20, or whatever you can manage. Start slow and gradually build up to getting through a whole workout. It may take a couple of weeks. Read Success Stories in the meantime or check out the Photo Galleries on the Message Boards to get inspired all over again. If they can do it, so can you. Join a WOWY Workout Group, find some Success Buddies, and set up a support system on the Message Boards. You're not in this alone.
Proof: Koko T. "One night, bloated, tired, and I'd say overweight, I saw an infomercial for Power 90. . . I taped the infomercial so I could watch it again. Knowing myself, and knowing I was a lazy person with limited energy, I forgot about it and tried not to think about exercise and all that nutrition stuff. [Much later] I dug up the Power 90 infomercial, and went to the Beachbody site. I read the stories, saw the products, and wanted this to happen FAST. I ordered Slim in 6 because it was only a 42-day program, but sadly, when it arrived it just sat there for close to a year. Did I mention how lazy and unmotivated I can be? I hadn't even opened the package! . . . One day . . . I did the programs, I stayed with it, I followed the nutrition guidelines and logged on to the Message Boards every chance I got. It wasn't magic. I am now the 'after' photo I always dreamed of."
The Constant Staller
You can't piece together a regular exercise schedule no matter how hard you try. You're forever starting and restarting programs, but the chaos of daily life inevitably intervenes and knocks you off track. It seems like every day someone's birthday celebration, a special event, a personal or work obligation, or a family emergency derails your most sincere fitness intentions. You're constantly postponing or rescheduling workouts, which means you're rarely ever working out at all.
Most common fitness lament: "I just don't have time!"
Pitfall: Distractions. You haven't made fitness a priority in your life, so anything and everything takes precedence over your workout.
Start with . . . Easing into a regular workout schedule. Early mornings might make the most sense for you, since once the day starts unfolding, your chances of escaping the rising momentum of responsibilities are nil. Getting your exercise out of the way first thing means you don't have to suffer the self-loathing a missed workout usually entails. You can sail through the rest of the day guilt free. Don't put too much pressure on yourself to radically change your daily routine immediately, though. Start with just two or three workouts a week, and then add more as you get used to waking up early to exercise. Once you notice how much more energized you feel on those days, you'll be on your way to a regular workout schedule.
Proof: Charline B. "To those of you who say, 'I just can't find the time to do this,' I am here to tell you that if you want this badly enough, you will do whatever it takes. I had to change my schedule and faithfully log in to WOWY (another GREAT Beachbody tool!) at 4:30 AM six days a week to get in my workouts. Trust me, I am NOT a morning person, but this way I KNOW I'll get in my workout. No excuses. The changes in my life have made it worth whatever it takes."
The Valiant Struggler
You exercise four to six times a week, but hardly ever at the same time of day. You grab 20 minutes here, 40 minutes there, fitting in a workout whenever you can. Or maybe you've got a regular workout time, but your fitness "regimen" is all over the placeno rhyme or reason to why you choose a sculpting or cardio routine. You do whatever workout fits your time frame or suits your daily moodor spills out of the DVD cabinet.
Most common fitness lament: "I'm not seeing results!"
Pitfall: No game plan. Or no intensity.
Start with . . . A specific goal. Do you want to lose a certain number of pounds? Get your waist down to a certain number of inches? Fit into a specific dress or suit size? To sneak a little order into your routine while preserving your need for flexibility, try programs like Power Half Hour®, Slim Series®, and Fast 10®they all provide different kinds of workouts you can customize to your needs, as well as recommended weekly plans, allowing you to add more cardio or targeted sculpting workouts depending on your goal. To ramp up the intensity, you can try working out with a progress tool like a heart rate monitor. Read Steve Edwards' article on how to use one.
Proof: Anna Eriksson, Beachbody Success Story Manager. "It wasn't until I strapped on my first heart rate monitor that I realized I'd been babying myself for quite a while. Later, I was asked to try a couple of workouts using a particular resistance band, a heavier band than I normally use. And what do you know? When I stopped, my arms felt . . . not sore . . . but workedjust by Pushing Play and ramping up the intensity."
The Intellectual Benchwarmer
You know all about the benefits of exercise and the hazards of obesity. You read fitness columns every day, subscribe to health magazines, and may even spend hours online chatting with other like-minded folks, soliciting advice and tips about fitness and nutrition. You spend so much time thinking or reading about working out that you hardly have the time or desire to actually do it.
Most common fitness lament: "I need more information!" or "I don't know how to do it right!"
Pitfall: You think too much.
Start with . . . Just doing it, to paraphrase the Nike slogan. Stop worrying and studying and start Pushing Play. Because intellectualizing exercise is your forte, it'll probably be easy for you to maintain an exercise journal. Try to keep it simple and use it as a tool to track your progress over time. Make sure you give yourself a chance to experience the process before you rush to analyze every ache and pain and then talk yourself out of doing your program every day. It's great to be interested in fitness and be aware of all its benefitsso long as you get away from your computer or put down the magazines long enough to actually work up a good sweat.
Proof: Ronald M. "As a registered nurse, I'm fully aware of the negative health consequences of obesity and inactivity. Yet, I still did not exercise and my waistline continued to get larger year by year. My eating habits were atrocious, I would eat whatever, whenever (many times after midnight), and as much as I could eat. Every summer for the past 7 years I've told myself, 'This is the year I'm getting in shape!' Power 90 works because Beachbody has laid everything out for you. Follow the workouts and the diet guidelines and you will succeed. After 90 days I lost a total of 25 lbs."
The Socializer
Besides Pushing Play, you're chatting with a program trainer a few times a week and setting up workout times with your WOWY Buddies. You may be a Team Beachbody Coach or a regular at Tony Horton's Fitness Camps. You share advice and maintain connections on the Message Boards. You post your progress photos every few weeks and have a solid support network. After all, it's easier to stay committed if you're accountable to people. And it's worth even more if your experience can make a positive difference in someone's life.
Most common fitness lament: "My Internet connection is too slow!"
Pitfall: There really isn't a downside to this oneunless your fitness routine is solely dependent on others.
Start with . . . Making sure you're self-accountable. It's wonderful that you're sharing your fitness success or offering support to otherswe wish there were lots more like you! You probably have what it takes to motivate yourself and Keep Pushing Play, but just in case you found yourself stranded somewhere indefinitely without an Internet connection . . . you'd know what to do, right?
Proof: Tony B. "I have renewed vitality and vigor combined with a whole new outlook on diet and life [after completing Power 90]. Never in my life have I been in this good of shape, not even when I was in boot camp. . . I would like to thank the fitness advisors for their prompt answers to questions and to all the people I have talked to on the Message Boards. Especially, The March Newbies!! I will continue to reside on the boards and will become a coach as soon as possible. I would like to share my experience with as many people as are willing to listen. Because of my cardiac limitations, I feel I can help people who are feeling timid about not being able to keep up or that might have to adjust and modify certain exercises to suit their specific needs."
The Autopilot
You've established the habit of exercising almost every day, at the same time each day. You follow workout programs to a T. Exercise is a priority and you schedule your day around it. You're self-motivated and you manage your time extremely well.
Most common fitness lament: "I'm bored," or "I'm not seeing results anymore."
Pitfall: Plateaus or even injuries. Working out the same muscle groups week after week in the same way may create imbalances or weaknesses in opposing muscle groups that could lead to injuries.
Start with . . . Mixing it up. When you get bored with the same old thing, or you're stuck at a certain weight, or you stop seeing results, you know it's time to make some changes, either in your workout intensity, your diet, or both. Check out Steve Edwards' "How Often Should You Change Your Workout?" Try incorporating new fitness gear into your usual routinea balance ball, toning band, heart rate monitor, weights, weighted glovesor else change fitness programs altogether. Switch to a more advanced workout series, try a different trainer, or alternate workouts from different programs. Or turn to others who've been through the same thing to infuse you with inspiration or jump-start your motivation.
Proof: Jimmy F. "Meeting Tony in Hawaii was a really motivating experience. I also met Beachbody's Mike Karpenko, who gave me some awesome tips on the P90X Nutrition Plan and how to make it really work for me this time around. I met Dale C., who got totally fantastic results from Power 90 and P90X, and talking to him really lit a fire under me. So I came back from that trip ready to commit and really BRING IT for a full 90 days!!!! The workouts were new to me all over again."
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Getting to the Core of Your Ab RoutineBy Steve Edwards
Core is the new abs.
Translation: Those chiseled six-packs you see adorning magazine covers these days are achieved by working the entire midsection, not just the abdominal muscles. So chuck your Ab Lounge, Ab Roller, and your 30-second ab routine and read on to see what could land you on the cover of Maxim.
This is the part where I confess to a bit of hyperbole. Those six-packs are mainly a function of the individual's body-fat percentage, not how strong their core muscles are. Those gimmicky ab workouts can be okay as part of your program. And hiring a publicist will do far more for your hopes of appearing in Maxim than any amount of time in the gym. Oh, and one more thing: most of those models don't look like that all of the time. As one of them put it to me at a shoot, "I can't wait to eat. You think I look like this all the time? That would be sooooo unhealthy."
Now that we've got that out of the way, let's get down to the business of creating a healthy core.
The crunch phenomenon
Isolation training, or training individual muscle groups, was all the rage for a couple of decades. Probably spurred on by Arnold in the iconic bodybuilding movie, Pumping Iron, people were creating exercises to isolate one muscle at a time and blast it into submission. As these exercises trickled away from Muscle Beach and into the mainstream, the one that stuck more than any other was the crunch.
The crunch is a great isolation movement. Plus, it's relatively easy and you can work your abdominal muscles into a state of rigor mortis within minutes. And, actually, it worked pretty well for bodybuilders. After all, they aren't movement-based athletes. And, since they spent so much time in the gym, isolating the abs wasn't so bad because they isolated every muscle group. By skipping that last tidbit, this spawned an entire industry of quick-fix workout gimmicks promising that you, too, could look like Arnold. But instead of dedicating your entire life to body sculpting, these promised similar results in a few minutes of ab isolation.
The rise of functional training
Functional training is basically exercising using movements that you'll encounter in everyday life. It grew out of physical therapy, which makes sense as more and more people were landing in PT units because they'd been injured due to isolation training. What they found was that isolation training was creating muscular imbalances. This is, essentially, where one muscle group becomes stronger than it's supposed to be compared to others. When this happens it's easy to get injured.
It's hard to create a muscular imbalance in your natural life. If you run, for example, your body naturally responds in a way where it uses all the muscles it can to help the movement. This includes what are called your prime mover muscles and your stabilizer muscles. In isolation training, the prime movers would get isolated because those were the muscles that you could see. This would create major imbalances and the stabilizers would often get no attention at all.
Your core and its function
Functional training starts with your core: the middle of your body where virtually all movements begin. A strong core creates a base to work from. If this base is solid, your chances of getting injuries decrease greatly. Because of this, functional training programs spend the majority of their time working on this area.
This might sound like isolation but it's not, because your core is not just your abs but all the muscles that connect to your spine and pelvis. It's essentially all of the prime mover and stabilizer muscles that you use to stay standing. For this reason, core exercises often include balance movements. These include using gadgets like balance balls, boards that wobble, golf balls, soft balls, and foam rollers, but it also includes simple old-school movements like push-ups, squats, and many yoga stances. All of these movements require body awareness (balance) to keep you from falling over. It's exactly the opposite of a Nautilus exercise machine or, say, a crunch.
Is isolation the root of injury and evil?
Some functional trainers like to tell you this but it's not true. There are many reasons why isolation movements still exist. The main one is sports. Sports create a reason for an athlete to attempt to exceed their natural physique's strength ability in certain areas. In order for a muscle to exceed its natural capacity for strength, it must first grow. Isolation exercises are great for this. So, while fine tools, these are only a piece of the athlete's pie. To avoid injury and increase performance, athletes periodize their training, which means they do various cycles of training that target different goals. An athlete may isolate a muscle group for a training cycle but then they must switch their training to functionally train this new muscle to work within the limitations of their body.
Your abs and you
So how does this affect you and how you'll look at the company beach party? First, the bad news: you won't look like Maria Sharapova by watching Oprah on your Ab Lounge. The good news, however, is that you can create a great-looking midsection by training in the way that's most beneficial to your body.
This is the point where I tell you that a true six-pack is a phase. Like I said before, even most fitness models don't walk around looking chiseled all the time. They try and stay fit and thin but the duration of the ultra six-pack is fleeting. It's the same for many athletes, who will often reduce their body fat to below healthy levels for increased sports performance (because reduced weight at the same strength = increase in power output). But they aren't always in this state. For a six-pack to appear, most men need to get below 10 percent body fat and women under about 14 percentabdominal muscle strength has nothing to do with it. Athletes are better off doing most of their training a little above this and losing the last bit for competition. This is because body fat helps your defense mechanisms. Some fat is needed to avoid injury and illness. Where you are concerned, the state of the six-pack should be something you target for some photos or, perhaps, a beach party. Your daily life goal should be a slim midsection. Tony Horton's Core Cardio workout is ideal for reducing body fat while strengthening your core.
Creating a healthy core
If you will commit to exercising, it's not all that difficult to ensure that your core is sound. Functional trainers love to use the word balance. And not just in regards to standing on a wobbly board. Balance in both your life and how you exercise will help you center yourself in more ways than one. Here are a few tips to ensure you're getting to the core of your workouts.
- Work your entire body. Whatever your workout program is, make sure it works on everything. Not just your core but your arms, legs, hands, and feet. Everything is connected to your core, like branches of a tree. Whatever workout program you choose should, at least a little bit, stress every muscle in your body. No one with an overweight body has ripped abs. It can't happen.
- Periodize your training. No matter how great your routine is, change it sometimes. Using various programs helps you work different muscles and create new engrams (neuromuscular brain patterns), which results in keeping your body balanced.
- Do some yoga or Pilates. Even if you hate it. Yoga, particularly, is the oldest functional training program there is. You don't need to do Shiva the destroyer's Power Yoga program. The basic old-school movements will be plenty to round out your workouts. Or for a fun yoga workout, try Yoga Booty Ballet® Master Series Yoga Core.
- Do some balance work. These workouts can be hard, mentally taxing, and kind of boring. But you don't need to spend 45 minutes balancing on one leg under a skateboard on top of a golf ball to see results. Just sitting on a balance ball at your desk is very helpful. Any balance work is better than none.
- Alter your crunch. You can still crunch and, of course, you still need to work all of your midsection muscles. A simple balance element, like lifting your legs as you crunch, turns an isolation ab movement into a core movement. Keeping your legs off the ground, and straight, contracts something called your transversus abdominis (TVA). This is the muscle responsible for holding your gut in (Another good TVA exercise is simply sucking your belly button in as far as you can). You'll start recognizing variations of these movements by staying present, aware, and observing life, which is another good exercise. Or you can do crunches with a Squishy Ball, as in the Yoga Booty Ballet programs.
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Ok, here's the deal with Matsui. He has been cleared by doctor to play outfield and DH. Out of loyalty, he will wait for Yanks to say yes or no. Then come Jan. he will listen to Sox. Slow process, but could happen. Sox are atop his list after Yanks said Multiple sources. Sox could go out to Cali next week and meet with him to check the knee in person. The good news for the Sox is Matsui told the Japanese media that its not about money or years, its about opportunity to play some OF. KW is about to talk and Japanese media is here looking for answers. It's on.
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Professor Bobby A. Wintermute stands at the Queens College World War II Veterans Memorial Plaza. Students under Wintermute's supervision researched and identified the 58 students and one staff member who died in the war and whose names now appear on one of three granite monuments in the plaza.
When he arrived at Queens in fall 2006, Bobby Wintermute took over a project begun a year earlier to commemorate WWII veterans from the QC community. It started with a curious artifact discovered in Rosenthal Library: a banner featuring a solitary black star with the numbers "58/1235" beneath it. It turned out to have been presented shortly after the end of the war by the former US Department of War, and indicated that 58 members of the QC community had died in the conflict (the number was later raised to 61) and 1,235 had been wounded. No names were provided.
But under Wintermute's supervision, history students managed to identify the dead by painstakingly comparing student enrollment lists from the period to news accounts of those killed. The professor says surviving veterans and the families of the deceased have willingly provided large numbers of photos, letters, and other artifacts. The result is a website documenting their sacrifices (http://qcpages.qc.edu/history/wwiiveterans/).
Wintermute grew up poor in West Virginia. His grandfather was a coal miner; his father abandoned the family early on. After high school, Wintermute worked in a factory and as an insurance agent, only getting his undergraduate college degree 10 years later. "Many students here are nontraditional too," he says. "I respect that. They really value their education and have many more life skills to pass on."
Wintermute's passion is the social impact of armies and war. Though still at the beginning of his academic career, he is a recognized expert on the subject, especially on the US Army's role in promoting public health in the decades up to 1920. In his dissertation, Wintermute recounts how the army was preoccupied—often out of moralistic concerns—with the scourges of venereal disease and alcoholism. The army had prostitutes with symptoms of venereal disease run out of some American cities and towns with army bases (no cure was yet widely available). The authorities flip-flopped over allowing beer and wine at army canteens—to dissuade soldiers from turning to harder drink off base—until the government banned alcohol completely with the start of Prohibition in 1920.
Favorite book: Treasure Island, by Robert L. Stevenson. "I read it over and over; it just enchanted me." He also loves comic books, "the great American idiom."
Favorite music: Everything from Mozart to Motorhead.
Courses: Introduction to US History (American History, 1607-1865), Race and Gender in Military History, graduate seminars on The First World War and An Introduction to Military History and Theory.
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For several years, Laurie Simmons has been in front of the camera, reporting and anchoring all over the Southeast. Now, she is happy to bring her Emmy award-winning reporting to Hampton Roads, always ready to hit the streets for the next big story. Laurie joined Newschannel 3 in May of 2011.
Prior to landing in Norfolk, Laurie worked in Pensacola, Florida. During her time there, she covered several high profile stories, including the 2010 BP Oil Spill. Laurie was on the front lines of the crisis, reporting from the beaches, from the air, and from the seas. She also did several investigative reports on the potential health impacts, and kept BP's feet to the fire by exposing the gaps in their clean-up process.
Laurie first started out on-air in Columbus, Georgia as a Political, Military and Crime Reporter. She got very involved in the Army community at Fort Benning while covering news on post, and extensively reported on the 2008 Presidential elections. During her time there, she also won two GABBY Awards from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters, both in the category of Best News Story.
Laurie is a graduate of American University in Washington, DC and member of the Delta Gamma Fraternity. When she's not reporting the news, Laurie loves to spend time with family and friends, relax on the beach, or read a good book. She is an avid CrossFitter and also a big soccer fan, having played all her life growing up. A proud Army wife, she lives in Hampton with her husband Billy, and their dogs, Samson and Hercules.


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In Vice City Stories there is a computer called the Fruit LC, a parody of the Apple Macintosh, however the name is inspired by the Apple Macintosh LC. According to in-game dialog on Wave 103, the Fruit LC may operate with BASIC programming. Adam First mentions he has finally managed to program a flying triangle that explodes into pixels on the screen. The in-game commercial parodies Apple's famous "1984" commercial. The "BYE" displayed on the Fruit LC's screen is a stab at Apple Macintosh's famous "hello" image on advertisements. The Fruit LC cost at $5,000.00.
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Modules for course C600 | BSC/SPS
BSC Sports Science
These are the modules currently offered on this course in the 2019–20 academic year.
You can also view the modules offered in the years: 2018–19; 2020–21.
Find out more about studying and applying for this degree.
Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- JXH-1017: Human Physiology (20) The aim of this module is to provide the students with core knowledge of human physiology necessary to understand the physiological saspects of exercise and sport covered in subdequent modules (SSHES) and to understand human disease processes (BioMedSci). The students are also introduced to the acute physiological responses to exercise and pathophuysiological mechanisms in disease as tools for better understanding human physiology and as a foundation for future modules.or
JXC-1017: Ffisioleg Dynol (20)
- JXH-1018: Sports Sci career studies (10) By examining a number of contemporary issues, students will learn how to identify and respond to the moral, ethical, legal and health and safety considerations that underpin best practice in the sports and exercise domain. Issues such as the use of drugs in sport, competition, child protection and safety policies will be analysed. Students will discuss how professionals and performers might meet their legal, moral and ethical responsibilities in the issues under consideration and what the different consequences might be if these obligations are or are not met.
- JXH-1021: Portfolio Academic skills (10) This module is designed to enhance your basic academic skills. These skills are transferable and will support your learning skills in other modules.or
JXC-1021: Sgiliau Academaidd (10)
- JXH-1027: Psychomotor Behaviour (20) This module covers sports psychology, motor control, and biomechanics and applies them to understand human performance considered from a number of theoretical perspectives. Topics to be covered will include confidence, stress, psychological skills, visual perception, memory, attention, stages of information processing, factors influencing reaction time, movement preparation and execution.or
JXC-1027: Ymddygiad Seicomodurol (20)
- JXH-1040: Introduction Applied SS (10) This module provides students with an introduction to aspects of sports science which are relevant to National Governing Bodies' coaching qualifications. Module content will include reflective practice skills and core aspects of sports science of relevance to the coaching of sport skills. That is, applied elements of sprots psychology (e.g., motivation and goal setting), permormance physiology (e.g., training and dietary planning), and skill acquisition (e.g., feedback) will be covered. Lectures will introduce and develop students' understanding of theoretical concepts whereas seminar/practical sessions will help to transfer this knowledge into the practical sports coaching domain. In order to foster a deeper level of understanding of the material covered in the module you will be allocated into groups in the first lecture. Your group will focus on one specific sport and the coaching requirements /demands of that specific sport. Wherever possible each lecture will contain opportunities to discuss the content of the lecture in the context of your specific sport. There will also be occasional homework assignments to complete within your group. In the penultimate week of the semester you will be asked to prepare a ten minute group presentation on a coaching plan for your sport that makes reference to applied principles of sport psychology and skill acquisition. The group presentation will be worth 60% of your final mark.or
JXC-1040: Cyflwyno Gwyddorau Chwaraeon (10)
- JXH-1044: Conducting Successful research (10) Core or
PCC-1007: Cyflwyniad i Ymchwil (10) Core
Semester 2
- JXH-1017: Human Physiology The aim of this module is to provide the students with core knowledge of human physiology necessary to understand the physiological saspects of exercise and sport covered in subdequent modules (SSHES) and to understand human disease processes (BioMedSci). The students are also introduced to the acute physiological responses to exercise and pathophuysiological mechanisms in disease as tools for better understanding human physiology and as a foundation for future modules.or
JXC-1017: Ffisioleg Dynol
- JXH-1020: Biomechanics (10) In this module you will be introduced to fundamental aspects of biomechanics as applied to sport and exercise. As a results the following concepts and issues will be covered: • Definitions of biomechanics units of measurement • Vectors • Linear and Angular Kinetics and Kinematics • Laws of Motion • Projectiles • Work, Power, Energy • Introduction to motion analysis • Application of biomechanics in sports and exercise. The module will consist of 11 lectures and 1 laboratory practical session, and optional seminar/enhancement classes.
- JXH-1021: Portfolio Academic skills This module is designed to enhance your basic academic skills. These skills are transferable and will support your learning skills in other modules.or
JXC-1021: Sgiliau Academaidd
- MSE-1023: Anatomy for Sport Science (10)
- JXH-1027: Psychomotor Behaviour This module covers sports psychology, motor control, and biomechanics and applies them to understand human performance considered from a number of theoretical perspectives. Topics to be covered will include confidence, stress, psychological skills, visual perception, memory, attention, stages of information processing, factors influencing reaction time, movement preparation and execution.or
JXC-1027: Ymddygiad Seicomodurol
- JXH-1028: Physical Activity & Health (10) This module will examine a variety of factors that relate to physcial activity and health which will be expanded upon in subsequent years of study. The broad aims of the module are: 1. To understand the relationship between regular physical activity and health outcomes. 2. To understand the differences in the effects of physical activity on fitness across age, gender and different population groups. 3. To examine physical activity patterns, determinants of exercise behaviour and barriers to exercise. 4. To be aware of the major principals behind physical activity, health promotion and adherence to exercise.
- JXH-1043: Practical Research Skills (10) Core or
PCC-1006: Datblygu sgiliau ymchwil (10) Core
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- JXH-2016: Research Methods (20) Core The purpose of this module is for students to understand research processes in sport, health, and exercise sciences covering Computational Statistics and Research Methods.or
JXC-2016: Dulliau Ymchwill (20) Core
- JXH-2020: Motor Control & Learning (10) The purpose of the module is to provide students with an understanding of the processes undelying the control and learning of human movement from a behavioural perspective. This module will cover research and theoretical issues on various topics in motor control and learning such as information processing and factors affecting reaction time; attention and movement control; central and sensory contributions in motor control; multi-limb coordination; stages of learning; organization of practice sessions; and the frequency and form of augmented feedback. The application of research findings and theoretical constructs to practical situations will be discussed.
- JXH-2022: Psychology of Sport Perf (10) This module we will consider factors that may affect sport performance and how these may be assessed. Lectures, with small group work will form the basis for the module. Theoretical content will be presented and discussed along with the practical significance of specific theories for performacne enhancement. Group work will be used in a variety of ways including problem solving in relation to set scenarios and solution generation. Regular use of the module's Blackboard site (e.g., MCQs, reading) will be advantageous to effective learning as would consistent lecture attendance. Lectures will be on Tuesday 9 - 11am in the Main Hall except week 2 (see schedule). Lectures start Tuesday 27th September. They will normally last approx. one and a half hours. In order to foster a deeper level of understanding of the material covered in the module you will be asked to submit personal reflections related to the topics covered within the module. Each of the 3 reflections should be no more than one page (approx. 300 words) and include references (and a bibliography on a separate page). Reflections are to be submitted by noon one week following the completion of the respective topics. For the specific topics and deadlines please refer to the table at the end of this outline. A personal reflection should express your ideas and thoughts relevant to the topic under consideration. That is, you should include information dealing with: (a) whether your own experiences with the topic are inline with theory/research, (b) if they are not in agreement with theory/research, (b) if they are not in agreement with theory/research, how so and/or why?, (c) is the topic even applicable to your (sporting) life?, (d) if not, why not?, (e) are there any issues/points raised that you can make use of in the future? and (f) any interesting/eye-opening/doubtful issues/points raised? Each reflection will be no more than one page double line spaced (font size 12) of written text with an accompanying reference section (refer to your Student Handbook concerning correct reference style). A title for each reflection should inform the reader of the topic reflected upon. Given the limited space for your reflections it may help not to attempt to reflect, at a more general level, on overall topics (e.g., anxiety) but rather, at a much more specific level (e.g., catastrophic drops in performance, MAT's predictions for cognitive anxiety), as this will provide you with much greater focus.
- JXH-2024: Sport & Exercise Physio (20) This module aims to develop students understanding of acute and chronic physiological adaptations of the body to exercise.or
JXC-2024: Ffisioleg Chwaraeon ac Ymarfer (20)
- JXH-2041: Project Proposal (20) or
JXC-2041: Cynnig Prosiect Ymchwil (20)
Semester 2
- JXH-2027: Sport Nutrition (10) This module will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the role that nutrition plays in sports performance. This will include nutrition and digestion - covering the major macro and micronutrients; specific nutritional demands of the exercising individual including the role of carbohydrate and fluid availability; the effect of various dietary strategies on energy metabolism and exercise performance; practical nutrional advice for pre-event, during event and recovery; nutrional ergogenic aids, 'do any work?' to include creatine, carnitine, medium chain triglycerides, caffeine, vitamin supplements and glutamine; dietary practices of elite performers ' mars bars and coke?'; use of dietary analysis, weighted food intake. Learning outcomes: students who successfully complete this module will be able to: utilise and apply previously acquired biochemical and physiological knowledge to understand digestion of macro/micro nutrients and their fate in energy metabolism; demonstrate a clear understanding on how diet influences sports performance and how different events have different nutritional demands; understand the specific role of carbohydrate and fluid availability in endurance performance; determinte the effects of ergogenic aids on sports performance and their efficacy; demonstrate a clear understanding of the appropriate use of dietary analysis with sports performers.
- JXH-2036: Applied Sport Psych (10) This module aims to introduce issues that are apparent in applied sport psychology. As well as mental skills sessions, this module will also focus on some of the processes involved in applied sport psychology (e.g., approaches to consultancy and performance profiling).or
JXC-2036: Seicoleg Chwaraeon Cymhwysol (10)
- JXH-2037: Exercise Psychology (10)
- JXH-2038: Physiological assess skills (10) To provide the student with British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) guided core physiological exercise testing skills to ensure a sufficient level of understanding through academic and practical experience.or
JXC-2038: Asesiad Ffisiolegol (10)
- JXH-2041: Project Proposal or
JXC-2041: Cynnig Prosiect Ymchwil
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- JXH-3031: Stress & Performance (10) The module explores research and theoretical standpoints within the field of stress and performance. Real life stress and performance case studies that the lecturer has encountered with athletes will be explored at depth within the module content. Class time will consist of a combination of lectures, individual exercises, group discussions and formative assignment practice.or
JXC-3031: Straen a Pherfformiad (10)
Semester 2
- JXH-3037: App Sport Sci of Elite Perf (10) This module will include: Training theory and advanced training techniques of the elite performer; Physiological assessment of performers; Issues in doping in elite performance; Preparation for competition.
40 credits from:
- JXH-3001: Research Project (40) (Semester 1 + 2) The aim of this module is to allow studnets to complete a research project in an area of mutual agreement with their supervisor in the school of sport, health and exercise sciences. Students will have the opportunity to produce an original piece of research work and integrate knowledge and skills developed previously durning the course at undergraduate level (e.g. research methods).or
JXC-3001: Prosiect Ymchwil (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- JXH-3054: Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2) or
JXC-3054: Traethawd (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- JXH-3033: Research in Psychological Skil (10) (Semester 1) or
JXC-3033: Ymchwil mewn Sgiliau Seicolego (10) (Semester 1)
- JXH-3034: Personality & Ind Diffs (10) (Semester 1) Early theories (psychodynamic theories and derivaties) and later theories of personality, including different methods of assessment and application, self theories (e.g., self determination, self discrepancy), the Big Five, the Giant Three; specific personality traits (e.g., neuroticism, narcissism, perfectionism, optimism) in relation to sport and exercise performance; body-centre personality theories and their relation to sprot and exercise performance and health; "high-risk" sports, including affect/emotion regulation and individual differences in sensation seeking and risk-taking.
- JXH-3039: Environmental Physiology (10) (Semester 1) This module aims to develop students¿ understanding of the effect of environmental extremes on the physiological responses to exercise and the effects of environmental extremes on exercise performance. The module will focus particularly on physiological responses to exercise performed in hot, cold, deep sea and microgravity (space flight) conditions.
- JXH-3047: Disability Sport & Rehab (10) (Semester 2)
- JXH-3048: Exercise for Clinical Populati (10) (Semester 1)
- JXH-3050: Skill Acquisition (10) (Semester 2) Class time will consist of a combination of lectures, individual exercises and group discussions.
- JXH-3055: Biochemistry of Exercise (10) (Semester 1) This course will introduce into Biochemistry and especially in metabolic pathways and their interaction in different tissues with focus on exercise response. Knowledge will be provided on how metabolism is regulated on the cellular and systemic levels. Students will learn how nutrition and exercise will impact metabolism acutely and chronically. Connection between metabolic processes and health and training outcomes will be addressed. This module is important for all students seeking improved insight in Physiology and Nutrition. Students who are aiming for a Nutrition-MSc are highly advised to select this module. Biochemistry might be compulsory for their future studies. Basic biochemical techniques will be explained and trained during the course.


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SPRINGTIME RIDE: The allure of seeing a horse roaming in the wild never loses its appeal. Never. Though we love our domesticated ponies and going on ranch rides, going out into nature and possibly spying a mustang or loping burro, out among the trees, tickles the heart. Add wildflowers and springtime sunshine into the mix and it is just about the perfect outing for the equine aficionado (and the botanical aficionado, too). Wild Horse Sanctuary, which is located in Shingletown (which is about a half hour east of Redding), is dedicated to helping roaming ponies and taking people who love those roamers a chance to see them out in nature. The Sanctuary is preparing to kick off its 2012 season with a "Wildflowers and Wild Horses" ride on Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29.
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WILD HORSE HISTORY: The story behind the sanctuary is a moving one; some 80 wild horses were set to be "destroyed" (the ponies were trotting about on public land); the founders rescued them and created a safe haven in which they could run around all they liked. There are trail rides throughout the warmer months but the first one of the season is always special. One? It's the first one, so fans can't wait to get out, ride, and see the animals they love. And two? It is quite flowery in late April. Prepare for breezy, pretty vistas and a mellow wander-about through a nice slice of northern California. Cost is $435 for the two-day jaunt. (We'll also mention the rides, regardless of time of year, book up; there's already a waiting list going for Memorial Day Weekend.)


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Hey ho everyone and welcome to yet another drawing day here on Dragoart.com. Today is going to be full of easy and fun lessons that I think will be a big hit with people of all different skill levels. To start the day off, let's learn "how to draw fries", step by step. I was going to submit a chibi character but I decided that I would do that next. French fries may be a food that is horrible for your body, but you can still enjoy this tasty side dish if you slice up some potatoes and drizzle them with olive oil, salt and pepper, and then you can bake them for about 30-40 minutes in the oven. The end result is delicious and full of flavor. Anyways, the fries that you will be drawing is in a cute little holder like the kind you get at your favorite fast food restaurant, and they are also going to be incredibly easy to replicate. So have fun with drawing fries, and I will meet you back in a few with more things to do. Peace out people!
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Emily Manning chats with kids, parents, and teachers about the best in children's literature for ages 4 through 11. Discussions include reading tips and fun activities to do with children before, during, and after reading.
Emily Manning
Emily Manning has a master's degree in reading education from the University of North Texas. She taught in the primary grades for several years before taking a reading intervention position that focused on working with struggling readers in grades 3rd-5th.
In 2006, Emily Manning began teaching reading education classes in an adjunct capacity at Texas Woman's University. And most recently, she has taken a position as an Instructional Specialist at Lee Elementary in Denton, Texas.
Emily is a member of the ReadWriteThink.org Advisory Board. She also belongs to several professional organizations including the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English.
Episode 52 | Published December 03, 2012
Discover books that allow you to look at the world through the eyes of an animal!
Episode 50 | Published October 15, 2012
Make your spine tingle with these spooky books for readers young and old!
Episode 49 | Published October 01, 2012
Get on the case with these tales about extraordinary detectives! Listen in as Emily highlights untraditional mysteries for kids.
Episode 48 | Published September 03, 2012
Explore books that celebrate relationships with grandmothers and learn how even across different cultures a grandmother's love is the same.
Episode 47 | Published August 15, 2012
Take flight with Emily as she highlights books about historical figures in aviation and chats with Candace Fleming, author of Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart.


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Massachusetts spends more on prisons, as crime rates drop
Prison population has tripled since early 1980s
A new report is critical of Massachusetts for putting more people behind bars and spending more on prisons, even though the state's violent crime rate is down dramatically.
The 40-page report commissioned by the nonpartisan MassInc research group says the percentage of Massachusetts residents behind bars has tripled since the early 1980s, as the state has clung to tough-on-crime laws and mandatory minimum sentences that other states have abandoned as ineffective.
The Boston Globe reports that the study also criticizes the state for paying too little attention to successfully integrating prisoners back into society.
The report estimated that policies that have led to more Draconian sentences and fewer paroles have extended prison stays by a third since 1990, costing the state an extra $150 million a year.


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Surgery is an option when all other efforts to restore or bypass your erectile dysfunction have failed. In fact, there are several possible alternatives that will permit you to have satisfactory sexual intercourse.
Restoring erections is often sufficient to restore complete sexual function.
Penile Prostheses (Implants)
This prosthesis (implant) consists of 1 or 2 bendable rods that are inserted into the penis. Once installed and healed, the penis and the prosthesis can be bent into position. It can be placed upward for sexual activity, then returned to a normal state.
There are 3 pieces to this device:
- A balloon-like cylinder that fits into the penis
- A pump that is placed into the scrotum
- A reservoir of liquid that is placed nearby, inside the pelvis
The penis is non-erect until the pump is repeatedly squeezed, filling the balloon from the reservoir. After intercourse, the balloon in the penis can be deflated.
The device is implanted under general or regional anesthesia. An incision is made between the penis and scrotum where the device is inserted. Additional incisions may be made to insert the accessory parts in their proper positions.
Vascular Reconstruction
If circulation is reduced to your penis due to vascular disease, reconstruction of your arteries may restore erectile function. This is complex surgery which is performed only in a few hospitals in the US. Occasionally, in these rare cases, the vascular defect can be repaired.
Revision Information
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C'mon, admit it: You wish you were one of Ina Garten's friends. They mix cosmopolitans and bring her treats, appearing on her Emmy award-winning cooking show and in the pages of her cookbooks. And they sure eat well.
No matter. She's practically offering the keys to her kingdom in her eighth book, "Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust" (Clarkson Potter, 2012; $35; about 100 recipes). In addition to the standard Cocktails and Starters and chapters, Garten devotes one to lunchtime entertaining. So here's hoping we all get to do more of that.
We've become accustomed to the way this author writes a recipe: minimally, yet there's almost always a telling detail — and that's one reason why people appreciate her work. If the topping on the Caramelized Bacon is underbaked, the strips won't crisp as they cool. Proceed even though the batter of the Perfect Pound Cake looks curdled; it will come together soon enough, with a higher mixer speed. The odd ingredient that can't be picked up at the market? The Barefoot Contessa tells you where to find it.
The extra bits — tips about timing, setting a table and composing menus — provide the context that comes across in her television series (the next of which begins in January). The story she tells about making lemonade out of her new but less-than-ideal oven is not meant to be a cautionary tale, but a lesson in kitchen adjustments.
In truth, "foolproof" is not so easy for any instructor to pull off. Garten defines the term applied to dishes that stand the test of time, reliable ones she makes again and again. Already, I've put her Fig and Fennel Caponata into rotation. But cooks without confidence and the kinds of people who scan the fine print at the bottom of car commercials can find imperfections faster than water can find a seam to leak through. In testing recipes from this book, I managed to choose Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts (who wouldn't?) and produced 18 lovely specimens from a batter that was supposed to yield 12. Maybe that's the downside of mentioning nothing more than a "baking pan." Instead of dipping them in butter, I found that brushing kept the doughnuts kept them from getting too saturated. I suspect she would be the first to endorse whatever adaptation was going to ensure that I'd make the doughnuts again and again.
Garten begins the book with a list of 10 foolproof cooking tips. From someone else, they might come across as commandments, and most of them are things you've been told before. But Barefoot Contessa fans know she wants to simplify, always simplify. Following them won't get you invited to her house in East Hampton, but they will make things nicer for the folks at your dinner parties.
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Neon Dollar here again with a very cute tutorial indeed! Today you will be learning 'How to Draw a Simple Dragon'. I wanted to make something that was really easy so that everyone could do it, and also extremely cute to make people WANT to draw it. I ended up with this adorable dragon and I hope that you all like it.
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North Canton police are investigating two sets of infant-sized remains found in a foot locker and expect it to take several weeks for DNA results to determine the age and sex of the deceased. A maintenance worker who witnessed the discovery said it was unlike anything he'd ever seen.
Doug Lindower said he was working at the mobile-home park on N. Main Street when he saw a distraught man "running around," throwing his hands in the air.
The Royal mobile park manager and maintenance worker went to help and found the man had discovered a footlocker with gruesome contents.
"I just ain't never seen anything like that in my life," Lindower said.
Inside, a partial skull that could fit in the palm of a hand and other infant-size bones were wrapped in "pretty disintegrated" cloth covering, said North Canton Police Chief Stephan Wilder.
The son of a recently deceased 66-year-old woman found the trunk while cleaning her mobile home with his cousin, and officers were called at 12:20 p.m. Monday to the home at 1161 N. Main St.
They contacted investigators with Stark County Coroner Dr. P.S. Murthy's office, who determined there were two sets of human skeletal remains.
North Canton detectives and the county coroner's office are continuing to investigate, and the remains are being sent to the Anthropology Department of Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa., for forensic examination.
Wilder said it could be weeks before DNA results reveal the infants' age or sex. The tests also may help determine how long the remains were in the trunk and who they belonged to.
"We can't make any judgments calls here, as to whether they're from family or not," Wilder said. "We don't know. We don't know whether they've been five years there or 40 years."
The deceased woman lived in North Canton for the past five years after moving from Louisville, and Wilder said police are not yet sure whether she had any knowledge of its contents. She died Nov. 28 and her son, who lives in California, was at the property to clean out her belongings.
Her son declined to comment when reached Tuesday by The Repository. Messages were left with remaining relatives in the Louisville area.
The blue trunk — about 38 inches long, 17 inches tall and 15 inches wide — was locked. Wilder said her relatives didn't want to throw it away without checking the contents.
"When they opened it up, they were, I think, rather shocked as to what they saw and called us immediately," he said.
Lindower said the son, whom he saw outside in the mobile park, told him he had found something in his mother's trailer before noon Monday.
"I asked him, I said, 'What's wrong? I mean, you all right?'
"He goes, 'Yeah, but ... I found something really weird in this trailer.'"
Lindower joined him and his relative as they uncovered the bones, which were wrapped in blankets and a trash bag inside the trunk. At first, Lindower said he thought they might be animal remains, but there was no fur. The surrounding blankets were falling apart.
"What was in there was definitely in there for a long time," he said.
The woman lived alone at the mobile park, and Lindower said she generally kept to herself. He occasionally helped her with outdoor chores and would clean the snow off her car because she was disabled and used a walker.
"She was a nice lady," he said.
Cleaning her home, though, may take time. Lindower said he saw piles of stuff inside and expected it to take at least a month for the place to be rentable.
"It was pretty deplorable conditions in there," he said.
Police searched the home and found nothing to assist in the death investigation. Wilder said officers were able to talk with the son Monday and are working to contact area relatives, who they hope may have information about the trunk.
"We don't know what was in that footlocker when she lived in Louisville, and if that footlocker belonged to somebody else before it got to her," he said.
Detectives will attempt to trace the trunk's origins and determine if anyone knows where the remains came from, which Wilder said could take some time. The case, he said, is a "very unusual situation" for the North Canton community and the only like it he's experienced during his career.
"It's a sad set of circumstances," Wilder said.
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What we don't know
To whom the bones belongThe infants' age and sexHow they got inside the footlockerHow long the remains were in the trunkOrigins of the trunk


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EXPLAIN statement provides
information about how MySQL executes statements:
When you precede a
SELECTstatement with the keyword
EXPLAIN, MySQL displays information from the optimizer about the statement execution plan. That is, MySQL explains how it would process the statement, including information about how tables are joined and in which order. For information about using
EXPLAINto obtain execution plan information, see Section 8.8.2, "EXPLAIN Output Format".
EXPLAIN EXTENDEDproduces additional execution plan information that can be displayed using
SHOW WARNINGS. See Section 8.8.3, "Extended EXPLAIN Output Format".
EXPLAIN PARTITIONSis useful for examining queries involving partitioned tables. See Section 19.3.4, "Obtaining Information About Partitions".
With the help of
EXPLAIN, you can
see where you should add indexes to tables so that the statement
executes faster by using indexes to find rows. You can also use
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optimizer joins the tables in an optimal order. To give a hint
to the optimizer to use a join order corresponding to the order
in which the tables are named in a
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Section 22.214.171.124, "ANALYZE TABLE Statement".
EXPLAIN can also be used to
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is synonymous
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information, see Section 13.8.1, "DESCRIBE Statement", and
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Oehme van Sweden is in the process of planting a slope as part of our work at Westchester's Ridge Hill, a 1.3-million-square-foot regional mixed-use shopping center under construction in Yonkers, NY. Ridge Hill is located along the New York Thruway (I-87) in Yonkers. The property is being developed by Forest City Ratner with H3 – Hugh Hardy and John Fontillas design architects and Studio 5 Architects, Architect of record, DTS of White Plains, NY Civil Engineer.
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Ariana Grande's charity concert, One Love Manchester, sold out in under six minutes Thursday. About 45,000 tickets were snapped up after they went on sale at 10 a.m. local time.
The show will take place Sunday at the Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground just outside Manchester in honor of the bombing that took place at Grande's concert in the city last week. Twenty-two people died outside the show.
The Black Eyed Peas and Robbie Williams will join Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan, Little Mix, Katy Perry, Take That, Usher and Pharrell Williams.
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Live Nation said Thursday that girl group Little Mix has also been added to the show. Proceeds will go to an emergency fund set up by the city of Manchester and the British Red Cross.


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Gut check: Things can't be feeling very good for Australian Open finalists Li Na and Andy Murray. The two runners-up are a combined 0-9 since making their respective runs to the Melbourne title matches (including their losses there). Murray hasn't won a set since beating David Ferrer in the SFs Down Under, losing to no. 143 Donald Young in straights at Indian Wells two weeks ago and following that up with a startlingly embarrassing loss to Alex Bogolomov Jr. 6-1, 7-5 yesterday in Miami.
Things have been a little brighter for Li – but not much. Following a hard-fought three-set loss to Kim Clijsters in Melbourne, she's traded sets with countrywoman Peng Shuai and another Belgian, Yanina Wickmayer, only to fall in three. In Miami this week, little-known Johanna Larsson (who had never even played a top 25 player) beat Na 7-6 in the third set after the Chinese no. 1 had multiple match points.
"I just didn't have that spark," Murray explained after his loss yesterday. Yeah, we noticed.
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This past weekend my husband looked out the back door, into the backyard, as he has done a million times and asked aloud, "When are we going to get rid of the swing set?"
The rusty swing set really serves no purpose. The boys have grown too old to bother with it and it's in the way when Carlos cuts the grass. It's simply taking up space, but what do you do with a swing set you don't want? You can't just toss it in the trash… and besides, it hurts my heart a little to admit that the swing set years are officially over.
Carlos didn't wait for me to make excuses. "I'm taking it down," he said, and then turning to the boys, "Who wants to help?" … I expected the boys to beg him not to take it down but they ran to get the toolbox. I guess it was time.
While we dismantled the swing set, Suegra happened to call on the phone from El Salvador.
"What are you doing there?" she asked.
"We're taking apart the swing set."
"Oh no!"
For once I thought Suegra was in agreement with me – that we were doing away with a special memory, but she continued on, "Why are you taking it down?! Where will I hang my laundry when I come back?!"


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About us
Recruitment overview
The National Gallery of Australia (the Gallery) is an independent Commonwealth statutory authority within the Ministry of the Arts which is part of the Department of Communications and the Arts. The Gallery is one of Australia's major cultural institutions.
To be considered for a vacancy at the National Gallery you must be an Australian citizen or eligible to apply for Australian citizenship within a reasonable period of time. If you accept a job offer from us you will need to provide evidence of citizenship and undertake a security check. Medical clearances and a probationary period of employment will apply for ongoing positions and non-ongoing positions of 12 months or more.
Recruitment documentation
- NGA Enterprise Agreement 2018–21 (1.7 Mb pdf)
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- Personal particulars form
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The Gallery has a diverse workforce of 280 staff and seeks to attract staff who are self-motivated and professional in their approach, for work in a challenging and rewarding environment. The Gallery is a great place to work, with employees enjoying many benefits—which include:
- being part of a team that is recognised internationally for the quality of its collection;
- being part of an organisation that is highly respected in the art community, both nationally and internationally;
- opportunity to further develop skills and experience;
- access to generous superannuation benefit schemes;
- flexibility in work, and flexible working conditions;
- challenging and enjoyable work; and
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Lawmakers: Russia may have aided Snowden
- Three lawmakers said NSA leaker Edward Snowden may have been assisted by a foreign power
- House intel Chairman Mike Rogers said it%27s no coincidence that Snowden ended up in Russia
- Vladimir Putin said Snowden is welcome to stay in Russia as long as he wants
WASHINGTON — Three top congressional lawmakers said Sunday that Russia may have assisted Edward Snowden in leaking classified national security intelligence.
Russia has hosted Snowden in the wake of the leak scandal, but the nation has not been implicated in assisting the former National Security Agency contractor on the front end of the largest U.S. intelligence leak in the nation's history. Snowden downloaded a vast trove of documents on American surveillance programs and has been leaking them to the press.
House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., told NBC's Meet the Press that he believes Snowden was assisted in stealing the information. Rogers said the "vast majority" of the information had nothing to do with the controversial collection of private data but rather details about U.S. military forces who "have been incredibly harmed by the data that he has taken with him."
Rogers added: "Well, let me just say this: I believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands – the loving arms – of a (Russian Federal Security Service) agent in Moscow. I don't think that's a coincidence."
Pressed on whether he believes the Russian government aided Snowden, Rogers said, "I believe there are questions to be answered there. I don't think it was a gee-whiz luck event that he ended up in Moscow."
Appearing on the same program, Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Snowden "may well have" had assistance from Russian agents, but that there was no certainty "at this stage." Both chairs said there was "absolutely" an investigation going on into Russia's role in the leak.
Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, appeared on ABC's This Week and said he could not say definitively if Russia played a role, "but I personally believe that he was cultivated by a foreign power to do what he did."
McCaul appeared on the program from Russia, the host nation of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also appeared on This Week, where he was asked if Snowden could stay in Russia as long as he wants. "Yes, sure, definitely," Putin said, noting that under the provisional asylum he can travel freely throughout the nation, including to the Olympic Games. "He can just buy a ticket and come here," he said.


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Global investor confidence in the U.S. has increased significantly, thanks to favorable capital markets, abundant investment opportunities and a strong investor climate, according to the 2014 Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey from Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association.
Investor confidence has also increased in Israel and Canada.
The survey was conducted in May and June among some 300 venture capital, private equity and growth equity investors in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.
It looked specifically at investor confidence on the global venture capital environment, market factors shaping industries and investments in specific geographies and industry sectors, assigning confidence levels on a scale of 1 to 5 (most confidence).
"For the past three years, the U.S. has seen a significant increase in investor confidence, continuing the trend which began to take hold in 2012," Jim Atwell, national managing partner of Deloitte & Touche's emerging growth company practice, said in a statement.
"Improving capital market conditions lifted the pace of initial public offerings, fed by a strong lineup of new and innovative companies like we see on the Technology Fast 500 list, along with increased investor confidence both in the ability to fundraise as well as to achieve favorable returns on investment."
According to the statement, venture capital fundraising has accelerated in recent quarters, with U.S. firms having raised $7.4 billion in new commitments from 78 funds during the second quarter of 2014.
This was the strongest quarter for the number of funds raised since the fourth quarter of 2007.
Venture capitalists invested $29.5 billion in 3,382 companies in 2013. Software was the leading sector, receiving 37.3% of total dollars followed by biotechnology with 15.4% of total investment.
Among first fundings, software led the way with 591 companies getting their initial venture capital rounds, some 46% of all first fundings.
In line with this, the survey found that global investors continued to invest and were most enthusiastic for less capital intensive IT-related sectors, particularly technology, mobile and cloud computing.
Less in favor were sectors requiring more capital intensive spends, including hardware and semiconductors.
U.S. respondents' outlook on investing in U.S. opportunities scored an average of 4.17, up 41 basis points from 2013, according to the survey.
At the same time, U.S. confidence in global capital markets rose from 2.70 in 2013 to 2.99 in 2014.
Emerging markets continued to decline among global investors.
Survey participants rated Brazil at 3.13, down 42 basis points from 2012; China at 3.27, down 18 basis points from 2012; and India at 3.08, down 16 basis points from 2012.
Cloud Computing Ascendant
For the second year in a row, U.S. venture capital investors surveyed named cloud computing as the area they were most confident investing in, with a 4.29 rating, trailed closely by mobile technology at 4.28.
Enterprise software followed at 4.00, and health care IT and services at 3.87. Global venture capital investors survey responses showed similar results: cloud computing (4.11), mobile (4.02) and health care IT and services (3.94).
U.S. investors gave lowest confidence scores to energy/clean technologies (2.47) and semiconductors (2.33), while the global group showed the least confidence for investments in hardware (2.83) and semiconductors (2.76).
Overall confidence about the global economy increased 33 basis points from the previous year to 3.20. Fifty-five percent of investors expressed a neutral sentiment about global economic prospects.
Among U.S.-based participants, confidence in the global economy scored 2.96, up 19 basis points from 2013.
U.S. Policymaking Doubted
Across the globe, the U.S. maintained its position as the best country in which to invest, rating 4.03, followed by Israel at 3.71, Canada at 3.48 and Germany at 3.38.
However, U.S.-based respondents doubted government's ability to enact policies that support domestic venture capital, private equity and growth equity investment in the coming year.
Confidence in government policymaking dropped from a collective 2.17 in 2013 to 2.05 in this year's survey, the lowest among the countries surveyed.
"A global environment where capital flows to companies from creation to growth to exit depends, in part, on government policies that encourage investment in new ideas and provide a clear pathway for innovations to go to market," Scott Sandell, general partner of New Enterprise Associates and chairman of NVCA, said in the statement.
"Decreased confidence in government drives capital away from economies, and if more isn't done to improve the U.S. policymaking process, we could lose our foothold as the preeminent destination for innovation investment."
Confidence of respondents from 11 other countries in their government's support averaged a 3, but all of them had higher confidence levels than the U.S. respondents.
Investors' confidence in their home government's ability to help domestic venture capitalists via incentives, policy and legislation were highest for India (3.83), China (3.63) and Japan (3.58).


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2009 marked the launch of Australia Zoo's Turtle Research Project. For the first time in Australia, we attached a satellite tracker to a rehabilitated turtle, to unlock the mystery of their journey back to the wild.
Using ground-breaking technology, we can now track rehabilitated turtles for 500 days; monitoring where they go, how far they journey, and how fast they travel. The new information is vital to the success of turtle rehabilitation programs worldwide.
The project is a collaborative effort from Australia Zoo, Australian Wildlife Hospital, Sirtrack, Queensland Governments Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the University of Queensland.
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Storm Damage in Iroquois County….
….Emergency Responders are Victims
Two professional emergency response people became are victims of severe weather in Iroquois County Sunday. No injuries have been reported, but structural damage was widespread south and east of Watseka.
Ameren utility crews report a few cust9omers still without power this morning. Those are in select areas near Route 24 between Watseka and crescent City where up to 49 utility poles came down across the T.P.& W. Railroad tracks along Route 24.
Watseka Police Sgt. Jeremy Douglas' family is OK but a building was destroyed at the family site along County Road 1730 N. A 40 by 40 cinder-block building was blown apart on the north side of the property. Site. Debris was scattered a few miles to the east. Crumbled siding and furniture was ripped apart. The Douglas family was in the basement of the house, which wasn't hit by the storm. Douglas said his wife was paying attention to weather reports and made sure the family was safely tucked until the storm had passed.
A few miles to the east, Iroquois County 9-1-1 Coordinator Nita Dubble's 2-story home was shaken and windows blown out. Dubble said she was sitting inside and heard the winds rumble thru the house. At least five buildings on the property were damaged by winds. A camper parked inside one shed was impaled with a board ripped from another building. One camper, inside the building was moved about 8-feet. A large evergreen tree was also uprooted.
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Sewing expert Sandra Betzina has spent many years teaching and sewing with a passion.
In this regular new column, Sandra will be sharing her tips for hassle-free sewing.
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Accurate Cutting
To avoid shifting and slippage of unstable fabrics, such as rayon and lightweight silk, cover the cutting surface with tissue paper. Overlay the tissue paper with a double thickness of the fabric, taping the cut edges and the selvages to the table. Overlay the pattern pieces. Cut out the pattern through all layers, including the tissue. Throw out the tissue and begin constructing the garment.
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When cutting out pattern pieces, cut off the black cutting line completely or the pattern pieces won't fit together properly.
The number of hassles created by not being able to see pattern markings are countless. If you like frustration while you're sewing, don't bother with marking the dots and you'll have frustration at the highest level. Mark all the notches and dots clearly. If the fabric is nubby, mark with a tailor's tack, or fuse a H" square of interfacing onto the fabric wrong side and mark on the interfacing. On stable fabrics, mark the notches out and the dots in.
Loose-weave fabrics and fusing on fitted garments can cause big problems, making the finished garment too tight. Use the block fusing method when interfacing to avoid shrinkage. Cut out a length of fabric long enough to fit on the pattern pieces you plan to fuse. Leave the selvages intact. Fuse the interfacing to the fabric. Use the selvages to determine the straight of grain when pinning the pattern to the fabric.
Never use fusibles on lightweight silks. On fabric pieces that call for interfacing, hand baste silk organza to the wrong sides of the cut fabric pieces. Using organza instead of interfacing avoids a bubbly appearance or a "too stiff" look. Interfacing should support the fabric but should never be evident from the fabric right side.
Avoid puckered seams by changing needles often and using the correct needle type for the fabric.
Don't sew over pins except when cross pinning to avoid shifting seam joints. Sewing over pins causes a drag on the bobbin, which weakens the seam. Sewing over pins can also dull or bend the needle.
Stay Tape
Stay tape shoulders, necklines and waistlines. Stay tape prevents the fabric from stretching as you sew and maintains the garment's size as you wear it. Z
Sandra Betzina has written many books. Learn the correct needle, stitch length, presser foot, interfacing, seams, pressing, hems and closures to use for all fabrics in her book More Fabric Savvy. She also designs patterns for Vogue under the Today's Fit label, writes a subscriber-only online sewing column and conducts hands-on, week-long classes in San Francisco. For more information, visit her Web site at sandrabetzina.com, or call (415) 359-0440.
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Today a personal journey ends for me, not just the Rio Earth Summit. I have been involved in the Rio Earth Summit process for two years. I never had much hope for this summit, but as it is ending I am also not as depressed, as you might expect. Greenpeace exists to give the earth a voice - and we certainly spoke loud and clear on the abject failure of our governments here. We succeeded in preventing governments passing off a Polluter´s Charter as a success. I am reminded of how I felt 10 years ago, when I was leaving Rio+10 in Johannesburg. It´s the same sense of anger and renewed determination. It is not despair.
At the end of Rio+20 it's plain for the world to see that the transformational change we need was not delivered. We saw an epic failure of responsibility at Rio. Rio+20 should have been be about zero deforestation, an energy revolution based on renewable energy and energy efficiency, about healthy oceans, liveable forests, and ecological food for all. Instead, it delivered no action, no targets and too many weasle words. The Oceans Rescue Plan for the High Seas, for example, was bulldozed by an unholy alliance of the US and Venezuela, together with Russia and Canada, at 2am on Tuesday morning.
Rio+20 will go down in history as Greenwash+20. There is no good news in the official negotiation outcome. But there has been good news over the last two weeks. The campaign to introduce a zero deforestation law in Brazil grew from strength to strength at the People´s summit - with thousands signing up to join a coalition which has the support of indigenous peoples groups, faith leaders and environmental organisations, as well as those most Brazilian of national heroes – some of their most famous footballers.
And today, unlike 20 years ago, more solutions are proven and exist at scale. The energy sector is already changing, for example. In Germany, 81% of all installed power capacity in the last decade was renewable. Last year, investments in renewable energies globally were higher than investments in old and dirty fossil fuel technologies.
Action for the environment is popular. That is why citizen power is achieving real change around the world. A referendum in Italy stopped nuclear power last year. Old coal-fired power stations in the US are being decommissioned and new ones stopped by an unprecedented alliance of grassroots groups, federal regulators and investors who no longer believe the lie that "coal is cheap".
As the warnings of 20 years ago are turning into reality and the Arctic is melting at a shocking speed, opposition is also building. Here at Rio, Greenpeace launched a new mobilization to save the Arctic yesterday. It is our signal of hope against the despair of the official outcome. After Rio+20 the world needs people to mobilize and force change. The Arctic will be a first key battleground. It needs masses of people from around the world to stand up and demand action to protect it. A ban in the Arctic on oil drilling and industrial fishing would be a huge victory against the forces that won out at Rio+20 and would provide a future for the four million people who live there.
Beyond Rio+20 lies a road worth taking: Through a groundswell of public mobilisation, social movement alliances, smart businesses investing in the future and enough governments daring to lead by regulating effectively and banning unsustainable practices, a liveable future is still in our grasp. Rio+20´s failure is above all a call to action. We still need a global deal to tackle the threats of climate change and ecological destruction, and the miseries of poverty, hunger, disease and inequality. But to make that happen, we will need to make it impossible for our leaders to do anything less.
I will certainly not miss the endless meetings in windowless rooms that led to this summit. I can´t wait to spend more time with my daughters. But their future was gladly not decided over the last three days. Their future is decided by all of us, who must unite to build a movement of movements to force the future we want.
Daniel Mittler is the Political Director of Greenpeace International
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Great article, dispite the bad news you are showing belief and it makes us all wanna keep working for our world. We are the ones who screwed the ear...
Great article, dispite the bad news you are showing belief and it makes us all wanna keep working for our world. We are the ones who screwed the earth up, MUST be the ones who fix it.
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Massive ongoing deforestation and the gutting of the Forest Code, damming the rivers in Amazonia and now, according to the FT, mining in the Amazon. ...
Massive ongoing deforestation and the gutting of the Forest Code, damming the rivers in Amazonia and now, according to the FT, mining in the Amazon. There seems to be no stopping the Brazilian Government's willingness to pander to industrial interests and destroy this critical natural resource and displace the indigenous peoples.
These depredations demand immediate worldwide action and sending a boat up the River is not the way to alert achieve this. More, much more needs to be done to bring this issue to the attention of the world.
The deliberate displacement of the indigenous people and the destruction of their habitat and way of life should be brought before the UN Commission on Human Rights and the actions of the Brazilian Government given much wider publicity that has been the case so far.
26 June, 2012 at 19:18
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The other good news that has not been mentioned is also the groundswell of great work being done to not only initiate action, but to also put together...
The other good news that has not been mentioned is also the groundswell of great work being done to not only initiate action, but to also put together a globally coordinated plan to make it happen at all levels.
For instance, Gower recently published a book entitled Plan for the Planet, which highlghts and builds on the work being done around the world to build a sustainable world. This includes the Earth Charter, the Millenium Goals, as well as proactive business, government and community intitiatives, and brings these to together into a coordinated plan. Lester Browns work in Plan B, also looks at these opportunites.
Rio+20 is therefore alsa a wake up call for everyone to get involved in building s sustainable planet - as we now have a clear demonstration that conferences of politicians and the like are clearly not going to achieve this. With only one planet, however, we cannot afford to fail. Rio+20 therefore clearly deomnstates its going to be up to everyone else to make it happen.
The work being done to develop an overall plan to make sure we can coordinate all of our efforts is therefore going to be key be our success - and that also is also starting to happen. We actually now are starting to develop all the ingreadients required to turn the current alarming situation on our planet around. Thats actually is very good news!
27 June, 2012 at 14:12
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n 2012, Energy Cities initiated a process aimed at making and debating proposals for accelerating the energy transition of European cities and towns. ...
n 2012, Energy Cities initiated a process aimed at making and debating proposals for accelerating the energy transition of European cities and towns. These proposals are based on innovative approaches, new ideas and groundbreaking practices. They provide practical answers and link today's action to the long-term vision of a low energy city with a high quality of life for all.
The 30 mind‐boggling proposals tackle the following five key areas:
- Empowering local actors;
- Knowing our territories' resources and flows;
- Rethinking finance in general;
- Inventing a new local governance;
- Urban planning as a way of reducing energy use.
More info and access to the Energy Cities's Booklet of Proposals :
[en] www.energy-cities.eu/30proposals
[fr] www.energy-cities.eu/30propositions
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Interesting analysis…
UNCOMPROMISING ADVOCACY FOR A NEW DEAL. What is the big challenge today? Increasingly, environmental safety and sustainabl...
Interesting analysis…
UNCOMPROMISING ADVOCACY FOR A NEW DEAL. What is the big challenge today? Increasingly, environmental safety and sustainable development constitute major public expectations across the world. However, a public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups – e.g. environmentalists, NGOs, civil society, business world, states, local authorities, international institutions, etc.
BEYOND VESTED INTERESTS. How to overcome the above-mentioned challenge? In my opinion, the biggest challenge lies not so much in developing new ideas – i.e. environmental safety, sustainable development, green economy, etc. – as in getting rid of old concepts. So to speak, the next move is always the test. Otherwise said, the secret of getting ahead is simply getting started. That, in itself, is the chief reason why I campaign for environmental safety and sustainable development. For example, I'm actively engaged in protecting the Congolese Forest – see "Bassin du Congo: enjeu écologique et géostratégique du 21e siècle" (http://cahiers.blog.tdg.ch/archive/2009/12/07/bassin-du-congo-enjeu-ecologique-et-geostrategique-du-21e-si.html).
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