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The Galactic Federation was the political entity that succeeded the Earth Empire as the dominant galactic power.
Philosophy and mission Edit
The Federation was designed to ensure peaceful relations between the many species in the galaxy, with emphasis on cooperation rather than competition in matters of trade and policy. It was formed to help the unstable economy of the Galaxy after the collapse of the Earth Empire. (PROSE: Legacy)
Governance Edit
The headquarters of the Federation was located on Alpha Centauri in 3375, though Jupiter's moon Io was eventually chosen as the Federation Chair. (PROSE: The Dark Path) Each member of the Federation took a chairmanship for a limited term. Any decision had to be by unanimous vote. (PROSE: The Dark Path, TV: The Curse of Peladon)
Law Edit
The Federation guaranteed full planetary sovereignty to its member worlds, meaning that the Federation council could not interfere with the local laws and customs of individual planets. (TV: The Curse of Peladon, The Monster of Peladon)
Members Edit
Known members included Alpha Centauri (TV: The Curse of Peladon), Arcturus (TV: The Curse of Peladon), Arviem 2 (AUDIO: The Revolution), Draconia (PROSE: The Dark Path), Earth (TV: The Curse of Peladon), Mars (TV: The Curse of Peladon), Peladon (TV: The Monster of Peladon), Terileptus (PROSE: The Dark Path), Vega (TV: The Monster of Peladon), Veltroch (PROSE: The Dark Path), Liasici (PROSE: Placebo Effect), Thoros Beta (PROSE: The Dark Path), Balhoon (COMIC: Reunion of Fear), Zygor (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers), Xlanthius (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars) and Emindar (PROSE: Vanderdeken's Children)
History Edit
The Federation was formed after the collapse of the Earth Empire, in the early-to-mid 32nd century. Earth, New Mars, and Draconia were founding members. (PROSE: Legacy)
In 3375, the Federation tried to integrate the Empire remnants at Darkheart colony into the new system. (PROSE: The Dark Path)
In the 40th century, the Federation went to war with Galaxy 5. They made numerous attempts to broker a peace deal but the criminal group refused to cooperate. Two Galaxy 5 agents, Eckersley and Azaxyr, attempted to take over the federation's trisilicate mine on Peladon. They were foiled and Galaxy 5 quickly agreed to a peace deal. (TV: The Monster of Peladon)
The Federation had an incursion with the Ba-El Cratt in the 51st century after the Human Empire unknowingly entered an agreement with their enemies, the Cancri to supply them diamonds for their war effort. (PROSE: Diamond Dogs)
The Federation starship Nepotist became part of Daedalus' plot to bring the war in the Enclave into the outside universe. The Federation was predicted to be one of the many forces to follow the Daleks into the war. The Eighth Doctor was present at the beginning of these events, but was prevented from taking part in their outcome by Iris Wildthyme. (PROSE: The Blue Angel)
While it was a Federation member, Earth and its colonies were also organised into the Earth Alliance. (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time) The Federation was later replaced as the dominant galactic power by the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire. (TV: Planet of the Ood)
A Federation was still around by the ninth millennium but had been corrupted by the descendants of Mavic Chen. An uprising of democrats sparked a civil war, and the Federation was replaced with the Union. In the tenth millennium, it bordered the Draconian Republic. In 10674, the Doctor claimed the Union would be replaced by the brutal Junta in a century; he later said he'd made up some of his future history. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus)


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(AP) ESPN replaces longtime motorsports announcer Reid
BRISTOL, Conn.
ESPN says motorsports announcer Marty Reid is no longer with the network.
Reid had been with ESPN since 1982 and is the only television play-by-play announcer to cover five different North American motorsports series. He's called NASCAR's Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Truck Series, as well as IndyCar and NHRA.
An ESPN spokesman says the network is going in a different direction and Allen Bestwick will call the remainder of the Nationwide Series races this season.
Reid was the network's lead announcer for IndyCar and that position will be addressed later.
Reid erred during the Sept. 21 Nationwide Series race at Kentucky when he called the win for Ryan Blaney one lap shy of the finish. Bestwick called Saturday's race at Dover instead of Reid.
Here is Reid's gaffe at last week's Nationwide race in Kentucky:
Here is one of Reid's finer moments after Dan Wheldon's tragic passing:
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Eli Manning didn't come out and say the Giants are facing a must-win game heading into the third week.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Eli Manning didn't come out and say the Giants are facing a must-win game heading into the third week.
The two-time Super Bowl MVP came close though, and he wasn't the only Giant concerned after losing the first two games of the regular season, including a 41-23 loss to Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos in the Manning Bowl III on Sunday.
A lot of teammates were worried and with good reason heading into this weekend's game against the Panthers in Charlotte, N.C.
The last time an NFL team made the playoffs after starting 0-2 was in 2008, when Miami, Minnesota and San Diego overcame consecutive losses to start the season, yet made the playoffs.
In the last four seasons, though, 0-2 has been the kiss of death.
"In this situation, you've got to have a little sense of urgency," Manning said. "I don't think there's anything wrong with that. If you make it a must-win, sometimes that's what you need to be put in those situations. It is a big game. We're 0-2 right now. We're looking for our first win. Guys just have to keep their heads up and look at the good things and look at where we've got to make improvements."
The Giants have a lot of problems. They have turned the ball over 10 times, with Manning throwing seven interceptions. The run game has been limited to 73 yards total and opponents have scored 77 points, with many being set up by turnovers. While the defense has been OK, it fell asleep on two rushing touchdowns on Sunday and the line has not had much pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
Even the special teams has been shaky. Steve Weatherford punted poorly on Sunday and Denver's Trindon Holliday returned one 81 yards for a touchdown.
"You get a fire lit under you every now and then and I think now is one time we have a fire lit under us," middle linebacker Mark Herzlich said. "There is a sense of urgency, and I think one of the big things in football is that you never want to lose two games in a row. That's something that obviously happened to us and we want to end that.
We want to get in the winning habit. This is a new team, our 2013 team, we haven't had that yet and that's what we're working for."
Outspoken safety Antrel Rolle sounded a little worried on Monday. He has seen an inexplicable lack of excitement on the bench in the losses to Dallas and Denver and he knows that has to change.
"It's not the first time I've seen that, I've seen that year one, year two, and year three and there's also been times where we turn it on," said Rolle, elected a captain this season. "I don't know where the lack of emotion comes from, especially during the course of a game. This is something you love to do, this is something you should have passion about doing and the one thing I say, you can always control your effort and you can control how you approach the game. "
The Giants, if nothing else, have players who have overcome 0-2 starts before. But defensive end Justin Tuck doesn't want that to be a crutch this season.
"I can understand people outside this locker room saying they've got a lot of things to fix. It really isn't," Tuck said.


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Chuck Lorre: 'I Should Have Walked' When Charlie Sheen Pulled a Knife
"This was big-time cocaine."

Chuck Lorre regrets not quitting Two and a Half Men when Charlie Sheen attacked Brooke Mueller with a knife in 2009, he tells TV Guide. "That should have been it," Lorre says. "I should have walked. That's unthinkable," he says, even though Sheen had been charged in a number of domestic violence disputes before 2009. "But for some reason I thought that because she was willing to forgive him ... we could emerge from this fiasco and be stronger and healthier." It didn't work like that, though, and Lorre says Sheen's drug abuse eventually affected Men's professional environment. "This was drug addiction writ large. This was big-time cocaine and in his own words, an 'epic drug run' that could have ended with either his death or someone else's," Lorre says. "You couldn't do that much cocaine and work." Please, someone, write a juicy and perfect roman à clef about this so we can all put the Lorre/Sheen/Kutcher/Winning nonsense to bed once and for all.


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We offer a highly individualized program emphasizing the development of the whole child. We look at each child developmentally. We place emphasis on what the child can do rather than upon when the child was born. This philosophy allows the student to progress at their own rate of development.
Students can arrive as early as 7:40 a.m. They use the time from 8:00 until 8:30 to get organized for the day. We begin with the calendar and the pledge, and at 8:30 begin a work cycle of Montessori learning activities. Activities are individually chosen by the students, and incorporate all aspects of the curriculum. Teachers are available to assist and offer direct teaching as needed. Students are pulled out for individual therapy during this time.
10:30 is outside play time.
11:30 is either drama, music, or library.
12:15 is lunch, followed by rest time.
1:30 is another work cycle of learning activities.
2:30-2:50 is a closing time to get organized for going home.
All teachers respond to phone messages and e-mails within 24 hours of receiving them. We hold regular conferences about each child's progress every trimester (12 weeks). We also conduct parent informational meetings. Parent visitation is welcome in classrooms. Our newsletter, Horizons, comes out three times a year. Our parent support group meets 8 times a year to give knowledge of curriculum and methods and is required for all new parents.
We encourage parents to begin talking to their child several weeks before school, to emphasize new friends and learning new things. Parents should always be positive and smile when talking about school. We encourage parents to leave the classroom quickly, if the child is upset.


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RYE, N.Y. - Carol Kinghan (nee Graff), a resident of Rye, died July 31. She was 53.
Kinghan was born July 26, 1961, to William and Anna (Restuccio) Graff in Carmel, Calif. She was office manager for Top of the Line Design Firm in Connecticut.
Kinghan is survived by her daughter, Jacqueline Kinghan; partner, Steven Bitondo; sons, Michael Bitondo and Steven Bitondo; father, William Graff (Merla) of Palm Coast, Fla.; siblings, Lisa Bybel (John) of Yonkers, Donna Iennaco of Yorktown, Philip Graff of Bolton, Vt., and William Graff Jr. of Stamford, Conn.; and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother, Anna; son Christopher P. Kinghan; and aunt, Louise.
Calling hours are Tuesday, Aug. 5 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at McMahon, Lyon & Hartnett Funeral Home Inc. , 491 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Funeral Service will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, August 6 at the Church of the Resurrection, 910 Boston Post Road, Rye. Interment at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 10 W. Stevens Ave., Hawthorne.
Memorial contributions may be made to The Christopher Kinghan Heart of Giving Scholarship Fund Chapel School, 172 White Plains Road Scarsdale, NY 10708 or The American Cancer Society .
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Discussion in 'Xbox 360 - Games & Content' started by serg0, Sep 22, 2007.
I'm getting a 360 soon, Is 5 mbps good. Or should I upgrade to 15 mbps?
That speed is plenty for 360 man. Should be fine for hosting games as well, maybe not huge games but average.
Ok, thanks a lot.
Whats you upload speed? That is what is gonna make the biggest difference.
Exactly, I assumed at 5mbit his upload would be like 1mb.
I'm on 512k/128k and Live seems to work pretty well. No hosting games for me though
A 5mbps connection is more than enough for live.


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Today's existing home sales report was down another 4.9% to an annual rate of 4.82 million units, the lowest in nearly a year. And this, remember, is in the sixth year of a recovery with reported unemployment below 6% and the Fed preparing to raise interest rates to head off incipient overheating.
Mortgage rates can't be the problem, since they're down lately to less than 4% on a 30-year fixed loan. That's amazingly cheap, especially to people of a certain age who remember when 7% was a really good deal. In normal times a rate this low would set off a buying frenzy. This year it can't even keep demand steady.
The real problem has nothing to do with housing per se and everything to do with that fraudulently false unemployment number. The truth of the labor market is that 1) most of the new jobs being created are either part-time or low-wage or both and therefore can't support a mortgage, and 2) most of the improvement in unemployment comes from people dropping out of the workfore and no longer being counted as unemployed. These people also generally can't get or don't want mortgages. Meanwhile, the relative handful of Americans who do qualify for loans seem to be choosing cars and college degrees over houses.
And the US, remember, is the global success story. We monetized our debt first and fastest and are now reaping the rewards. But with the rest of the world flat-lining or worse (result: falling profits for US multinationals), the oil sector contracting (result: layoffs in once-booming Texas and the Dakotas), and now housing a net negative with no recovery in sight (result: layoffs of highly-paid appraisers and mortgage bankers), the odds of the Fed raising rates anytime soon are becoming more and more remote.
Much more likely is the US joining the race to negative rates. Somewhere down there must be a mortgage rate (1%...-1%?) that gets us buying again.


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Thursday, September 9, 2010
Scenes" receiving an Honorable Mention) in Alexandria, VA; and PONSHOP Square City Exhibit in Fredericksburg, VA. Additional shows include Colonial Beach Artists' Guild's Potomac River Regional Art Show, Alexandria's Kelly's Art & Frame, Clifton's Trummer's on Main, and Lorton's Workhouse W-16 Exhibits, Featured Artist Show, and Centennial Celebration. For more information on Bonnie: (bfbutler.blogspot.com)
Philip Bennet is having a show titled Mindscapes II in two galleries at the Glenview Mansion, Rockville Civic Center Park, November 4-30, 2010. Opening reception November 7, 1:30-3:30. Convenient parking on the premises. Call (240) 314-5004 for recorded directions. Except for the Sunday opening the Glenview Mansion is closed Saturdays and Sundays.
Dawn Capron is having a single person show at the River Road Universalist Unitarian Congregational Church in Bethesda from September 12 through October 7. The artist's reception will be Sunday, September 12, from 3 to 5. For directions, go to www.rruuc.org For daily times, please call 301-229-0400.
Betsy Kellum received best in show at the Art League's July juried show, Torpedo Factory, Old Town, Alexandria, VA for her painting, "Powhatan Clay Mfg. Co."
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"Take Me Home" won honorable mention in the Art League of Alexandria's Scapes show in August.
"Pears On Chenille" won the WInsor and Newton award at the Pastel Painters of Maine show in July as well as being accepted into the Connecticut Pastel Society's Renaissance in Pastel show.
"Standing Guard" was accepted into the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club's 114th Annual juried exhibition in October, National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, NY.
"Old Dominion Bricks and Dogwood'' won an honorable mention in the September Art League,Torpedo Factory juried show.
Alice Kelsey will be exhibiting 15 of her pastels and several oils paintings in the "Ridges and Valleys Show" at Faustina Gallery, Lewisburg, PA, (570-524-5080), from 11/5 - 11/ 20, 2010. The opening reception is November 5, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Alice will be at the opening reception and looks forward to meeting MPS members that are interested in attending. gallery.
Deborah Maklowski was one of 30 artists juried into the first annual Paint It! Ellicott City in August: she currently has 3 plein air paintings from that event hanging in the Howard County Center for the Arts, 8510 High Ridge Road in Ellicott City, through October 16. Deborah is also exhibiting 10 pastels at the Glenwood Community Center in September, along with mixed media collage artist Olga Rosser; has 4 pastels on view at the Howard County Conservancy on Frederick Rd in Woodstock, in the Artists' Gallery's "Vanishing Howard County" exhibit that runs through October 31; has a pastel in the Thomas Viaduct 175th anniversary celebration exhibit at the B&O Railroad Museum on Pratt Street in Baltimore, through February 2011; and has 3 colored pencil pieces in the North American Miniature Art Show on view at the Fells Point Gallery in Baltimore through October 30.
Maria Marino's pastel "Serenity" was juried into the 38th Annual PSA show held at the National Arts Club in New York City. The painting received the "Tampa Bay Pastel Society" award.
Michael McGurk has a painting in the Pastel Society of America 2010 exhibit in New York City. Also, he will teach a pastel workshop Sept 13-15 sponsored by the Shenandoah Valley Art center in Waynesboro Va.
Lisa Mitchell will be offering pastel instruction beginning on Friday October 1, in her home-based studio located in northern Baltimore County, (4 miles north of Hunt Valley). This class is for pastel artists, (beginner to intermediate) wanting to improve their drawing and painting skills in an encouraging, relaxing and fun-filled small group setting with plenty of individual attention. The class will meet each Friday afternoon from 10 am - 1 pm. Please follow this link for more details regarding this ongoing class,
Exploring the Nature of Pastel with Lisa Mitchell
Lisa will be participating in Paint Annapolis 2010 Plein Air Competition, Sept. 22 - Sept. 26. Approximately 30 other artists have been juried into this annual event. Rosalie Nadeau, (one of our MPS Signature Members) will be jurying this event. For more details about this show please click on this link: www.mapapa.org/PAINTANNAPOLIS/event_info.html
Lisa will be presenting a pastel demonstration at The Hunt and Harvest Autumn Invitational Art Show on Sunday, November 28, 2010 at Saint James Episcopal Church, 3100 Monkton Road, Monkton, Maryland 21111. She will be exhibiting 6 of her works along with 8 other artists.
JoEllen Murphy's figure painting "Repose" was juried into the 38th Annual Pastel Society of America show in New York City.
She is also part of the Columbia Pike Artist Studio which is having an open house Gala on Saturday, November 13 from 6 to 9pm. This is a popular event with paintings, prints, collage and sculpture on exhibit with the opportunity to buy directly from the artist. www.columbiapikeartiststudios.org


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Kevin Smith
Smith is a loyal subject of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (and hopes he'll get a knighthood for his trouble). He is a fanatical Dallas Cowboys fan and a devotee of real ales.
Research Areas
Public policy, Public Administration, American Politics, Biology, Politics
Current Research
- the application of biological and evolutionary modes to political attitudes and behaviors
- employs the methods of psychophysiology, behavioral genetics, neuro-imaging and experimental economics.
- College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Research and Creative Achievement Award 2010
- authored or co-authored nine books
- numerous research articles that have appeared Science, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Public Administration Review and other journals
Career Highlights
- co-director of the UNL Political Physiology Lab
- director of UNL's Systems Biology of Social Behavior (SB2) initiative
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1994


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text: "We all know that it's good to be honest, generous, self-controlled, tenacious, and thrifty, but it's the doing that dogs us." A sociologist on how to inculcate the youth with lessons on virtue: "America's first self-help leader, Benjamin Franklin, believed that virtue could be self-taught through practice. He married the practical and democratic Puritan values of thrift, hard work, education, and community spirit with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment, creating an American sense of character. He made lists of virtues to live by, charted his progress in a notebook, and evaluated his own performance daily."


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Fourth Child On the Way for Bruce Willis
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It's been a while since he changed diapers, but Bruce Willis is gearing up to be a dad again!
The actor and wife Emma, a designer and model, are expecting their first child together early next year, his rep confirms to PEOPLE.
The couple "are overjoyed with this news and they look forward to welcoming this newest addition into their family," the statement reads.
Willis, 56, and Heming, 35, were married in March 2009.
The actor also has three children — Rumer, 23, Scout, 20, and Tallulah, 17 — with ex-wife Demi Moore.
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On an overcast Easter Sunday morning we met for the jaunt down into the wilds of the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire. Heading off out we took some lesser-used roads and this made for a really pleasant change. It was nice to approach Bedmond from a different viewpoint. We were heading for Rucklers Lane and again I took a hardly used road that dropped us down into the right area.
Now the wind had gotten up a bit so the going was very quick indeed, soon we had traversed Rucklers lane and were onto a familiar journey taking in Flaunden, Flaunden Bottom (which had a massive bull in one of the fields) and Latimer. We arrived in Little Chalfont in plenty of time for a good cuppa and a well-deserved bacon sandwich, if the café was open. I had checked the lunch stop, but just never thought about the café being closed. With bucket loads of confidence I proclaimed there was a café around the corner and went looking for it, I found a Ladbrokes and an Orthodontist but no café. So I headed off in the next direction and found two side by side. We chose the most expensive to go in. It was a very nice Italian place and rather up market with 60 quid bottles of wine on the shelf. Here Steve and Carol joined us and Peter left us.
Carol took over the leading duties as I really wasn't sure of the area at all, and this worked rather well. We made our way into Chesham and then out to Pednor, from where we took a route around to Great Missenden (where Carol spied a new café). From this delightful village we headed along a new road, which skirted a couple of forests and then eventually dropped down into Prestwood. Lunch was at the Polecat Inn; I had never been inside this place and was astounded to see the collection of stuffed animals. We had a really nice lunch.
By the time lunch was over the weather had decided to make it presence felt and the rain played with us as we headed towards the Mediterranean Café in Flaunden. The route was fairly familiar and took in the hill that leads to the Green Dragon; the desired café was closed so we then decided that the golf course in Bovingdon was the stop for us. The Little Hay golf complex was actually rather good, they don't serve snacks and I think that's due to having no custom for it. This would make a lovely stop in the summer. After break it was time to head home and the weather had no plans of letting us fool ourselves that it was summer and pissed down on us as we squelched back into St Albans. We made a bedraggled lot but it was a great day nevertheless.
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Gulf platform evacuated when fire breaks out
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BARATARIA BAY, Gulf of Mexico —
Three workers were evacuated Wednesday morning after an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico caught fire.
The incident was reported at a platform north of the Mud Lake area, about 30 miles south of Terrebonne Parish. Crews were able to bring the situation under control and reported that two people suffered minor injuries.
The fire produced a spill in an area 600 yards long by half-a-mile wide, officials said. They noted that the sheen was dissipating by early afternoon.
The platform is owned by W&T Offshore, whose website describes the company as "an independent oil and natural gas acquisition, exploitation and exploration company, with a focus primarily in the Gulf of Mexico."
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Optimizing the health of seniors throughout North Simcoe Muskoka
As the NSM LHIN continues to work towards implementing our Seniors Care Strategy we will be updating our progress regularly through our:
Seniors Community Report - 2016
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If you have any questions about the North Simcoe Muskoka Seniors Care Strategy, please contact the NSM LHIN.
SGS Newsletter - February 2016
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In Penetanguishene, they're doing something amazing for residents with dementia. Watch their story on the CBC website.
Recreating the Past for Those with Dementia
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Smart Money: Update on insurance
William C. Fisher
Swiss Re has declared 2011 the year with the highest cost of catastrophe-related economic losses in history, at $350 billion. In 2012, underwriters are expected to conserve capital, judiciously allocate their capital and apply more conservative risk models to their portfolios.
Mike Fitzgerald, a managing director at Wortham Insurance Company (this author has an affiliation with the company) in San Antonio, says his P&C team is working closely with clients to evaluate their risk profiles, retool and reformulate their exposure appraisals.
Clients are being told to evaluate their loss limit, since excess capacity will become scarce and may prove to be too costly.
"We are seeing very large rate increases and extremely conservative terms applied along the entire Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard as RMS 11 is rolled out by property underwriters," Fitzgerald noted.
RMS 11 is a new catastrophe risk model adopted by the industry that accounts for concentrations of risk in catastrophe-prone areas. Darcy Whatley, the president of Baywood Crossing Rehabilitation & Health Center of Pasadena, TX, says her nursing facility recently reviewed its property coverage, because it's located on the Texas coast and insurance costs are three times what similar organizations are paying inland.
What this means for you: It may be time to work with your risk manager and insurance provider to review current coverage. If you have a number of locations, carefully evaluate your catastrophe-prone locations and consider placing these separate and apart from the balance of your portfolio. Develop and organize complete exposure appraisals.
Position your community insurance needs before claims, losses and economic events make changes difficult to orchestrate.


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In B2B content marketing, what you write about can be as important as what you write.
But there's a hell of a lot of so-called 'thought leadership' out there that isn't leading anyone's thought at all. That's because it isn't written from the company's true sphere of authority -- from the 'sweet spot'.
If you're committed to content marketing (as I'm sure you are) it's incredibly important to think about your sweet spot and keep your content inside it.
Since 'sweet spot' is a metaphor, let's make sure we're all on the same page about what it means. And for that, there's no place like Wikipedia:
"A sweet spot is a place where a combination of factors results in a maximum response for a given amount of effort"
Ooh. That works for me.
It goes on, "In tennis, baseball, or cricket, a given swing will result in a more powerful hit if the ball strikes the racquet or bat on the latter's sweet spot."
That's a good one too. Picture your content as the bat or racket. You want the most powerful response from an easy, smooth swing.
Back to B2B content marketing.
In content marketing, your sweet spot is the exact area of your company's expertise. It's the thing that you are uniquely positioned to talk about. The thing your company knows better than -- or at least as well as -- anyone else in the world.
You might have more than one sweet spot (around each product or for different target audiences) but each is a discrete zone.
The sweet spot is three-dimensional: it's important to know the exact size, shape and depth of yours.
Size –your sweet spot should be a focused area; as tight a focus as possible without leaving stuff out. If it's too big, you're writing from the Planet of the Generalists, where almost anyone can write (including other specialists who got their sweet spot wrong).
An example: Reevoo, is the undisputed expert on the roles of ratings, reviews and user-generated opinions in the purchase journey. No one knows more about this than they do. But if they claimed 'Ecommerce' as their sphere of authority, they'd look like lightweights. Too general.
Shape – you need to know exactly where your expertise reaches and where it stops. Just being adjacent to a topic or issue doesn't mean you're the authority on it. If you pretend to be, you'll be exposed.
Marketo's Definitive Guide to Lead Scoring is just that - definitive. Because Marketo is the DADDY of lead scoring. But if they did a Definitive Guide to Twitter, it would be just another guide to Twitter.
Depth – your expertise goes as deeply as it needs to go; you don't have to pretend it goes deeper.
When Salesforce.com writes an eBook on the Social-Powered Enterprise, it means something -- they've transformed themselves into a social business and help lots of other companies do so, too. But if they were to write about social media APIs in the mobile protocol stack, they'd be out of their depth – and needlessly so.
Define yours
Identifying and capturing your sweet spot(s) is one of the most important things you can do as a content marketer. It tells everyone on the team exactly what it is that you need to be seen as experts in.
How do you find yours? Well, you know when you're in your sweet spot when:
- The ideas and best-practice advice just flow – it's not a struggle to find things to say
- People lean forward when you talk about it – (metaphorically or otherwise) - they know this is your zone
- It's what you do every day – not just the latest bandwagon
- You've got lots of data and exepriences to support your views
A lot of content marketing tries to chase whatever is new out there; or to hop on to an issue that is important to the target audience but not in the brand's sphere of authority. This is bound to backfire because now you're writing a thin piece on a topic that matters. So you look like a featherweight.
Reaching beyond the sweet spot
Do you have to confine every single piece of content to your sweet spot? No, but it's important to know when you're straying away from it so that you can build bridges back. Marketo can write about social media as it relates to the lead nurturing process.
Econsultancy can write about Attention Deficit Disorder as it relates to digital marketing attention spans.
If you stray too far without building these links, you're out of your zone and it will show.
How to extend your sweet spot
When you really want to become thought leaders in an area that isn't yet in your sweet spot, you can use outside experts to help carry you into the new zone.
So an interview on your blog with the guy who invented the Slinky is a great way to start positioning yourself as experts in spring-based retro toys.
Write it down
Okay, give it a go. Capture your sweet spot in a single sentence. If you've got more than one, capture them all.
Then send this around to the team for comment and buy-in. When you get your sweet spot agreed, Krazy Glue it to your cubicle wall.
And when someone proposes the next eBook, hold it up to your sweet spot statement and ask yourself: Are you uniquely positioned to write about this? Is it coming from a place where you'll get 'a maximum response for a given amount of effort'?
[Disclaimer: Reevoo, Marketo and Salesforce are Velocity clients -- I used them as examples because I know them]
The B2B Content Marketing Best Practice Guide provides a framework for evaluating your current content marketing process and will help you make the most of your content in the future.
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"Do you have to confine every single piece of content to your sweet spot? No, but it's important to know when you're straying away from it so that you can build bridges back"
Excellent point. It's ok to reach outside your realm every now and then as long as the topic is still relevant to your audience, but you need to find a way to tie it back to your core strength. This might be easier said than done depending on what you're trying to talk about. You don't want to stray too far; you'll be in over your head.
Best line "...bound to backfire because now you're writing a thin piece on a topic that matters. So you look like a featherweight."
This is a great piece because companies spend so much time on branding and reputation management and then forget how it overlaps into their content marketing. Or, they only think their branding is a starting point whereas it should be the boundary. Great thoughts :)
Write what you are good at writing about, otherwise it may seem that you are either blagging it or you have nothing really to write about but are writing about it anyway.
The other reason to focus on your sweet spot is SEO. One of the benefits of 'content marketing' should be an improvement in organic search rankings due largely to the increase in links to your site if you're publishing good content worth linking to (and marketing it properly).
However, I always caution people to try and 'pick the right battles' with SEO. Not everyone can rank top for the big head-end search terms. Most companies have to pick out more niche search terms (often two or three word phrases) and focus on those. So you need to focus on a domain space which you can (in Google's eyes) be credibly seen as authoritative on. Hence the sweet spot focus.
p.s. and actually CRO (Conversion Rate Optimisation). To convert well you need to know what your value proposition actually is (your sweet spot). The truth is that many businesses don't really understand what value they are offering that is different/unique. The internet will expose these businesses over the medium term and they will fail.
Definitely -- both SEO and CRO are boosted when the content is in the sweet spot.
I think I feel a new eBook coming on...
There is a huge gap between good copywriting and the kind of copy that totally suits your readership and followers. It's almost a personality that people either like or don't I suppose. As for SEO, any relevant content is good, but is it possible to write for both seo and the reader - I mean fully?
What a great article Doug, highly enjoyable. I am highly interested by Thought Leadership as you mention in your article. I feel that this highly valuable and is the way for the future in terms of employment. It does appear that B2B orientated businesses are already embracing this as seen by Vodafone here - http://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/perspective/ This shows that several big companies are already using this to further their business. Whether it will work is another question but it will be interesting to see. Back to B2B Content marketing, some very interesting points there which I shall try to remember for future.
Thought leadership is the key, what I would call market leadership. You can't be all things to all people and you don't need to be. Create brilliant content regularly (and by regularly I really mean daily) that educates your market and grows their belief, trust and loyalty to your brand.


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In Chinese tradition, babies and their families celebrate 100 days after birth to wish the baby a long and happy life. The 100 days have made a difference - some of the cubs are now more than 20 times their birth weight.
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Is Abominable Snowman a look now?
We're not entirely sure of how we should describe this photo of Kayne's Friday night show at Atlantic City's Revel casino, but we're going to go with Abominable Snowman-meets-giant snowy owl. Later on in the evening, Kanye switched to an easier-to-label look: a Maison Martin Margiela glittering crystal hockey mask, because that's what you do.


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The limits of microfinance
Richard Rosenberg has a good new paper — short, clear, summarized here — saying that the jury is very much still out on whether or not microfinance helps improve the incomes of the poor. But even if it doesn't help the poor out of poverty, it still does a great deal of good in terms of giving them tools to deal with poverty.
Although Rosenberg makes a strong case that this is a very valuable service, it does seem to me that it's a service which both can and should be provided and funded locally, by the likes of Grameen. Right now there's an enormous amount of time, money, and skilled labor being put into microfinance across a large number of non-profit and for-profit philanthropies in the developed world, and I'm not at all convinced that all those resources couldn't be put to better use elsewhere.
Microfinance appeals to the kind of rich westerners who used to believe in the power of financial innovation to make the world a better place. Now that we've learned that financial innovation is prone to backfiring dramatically, I think it makes sense to approach microfinance more cautiously. Microfinance institutions tend to lend out money at very high interest rates, and it's easy to show lots of success with that kind of business model when you're growing fast and making it very easy for your clients to refinance.
Eventually, however, the growth in microfinance is going to slow, and the borrowers are going to find themselves saddled with large debts. If, as Rosenberg says, there's a good chance that those borrowers will still be in poverty at the time, the consequences might be pretty messy.


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In order to win the Republican nomination for superintendent of education, runoff opponents Sally Atwater and Molly Spearman will need a little help from some of their one-time foes.
"(You) hope that some of your former opponents become your friends and endorse you," Citadel political scientist Scott Buchanan said.
Atwater and Spearman will contend for some of the votes that went to the six defeated candidates Tuesday so one of them can face one of two Democrats in their runoff, Sheila Gallagher or Tom Thompson.
The day after the primary, four of the former Republican superintendent candidates were undecided or planned to remain neutral regarding who they support in the runoff race. However, two previous challengers said they were leaning toward Atwater.
Spearman, who topped Atwater by less than 1,500 votes on Tuesday, said to beat her opponent June 24, "it's going to take the people who want to see education move forward by someone who's lived here."
Atwater, who worked for the U.S. departments of Education and Health and Human Services, moved back to South Carolina where she has taught special-needs students in Colleton County for the past two years.
Atwater got a quick pick-up when Anderson County Board of Education member Gary Burgess, who came in fourth, called after primary results were released Tuesday to offer his support.
"He made the declaration that he was a true Republican and would be glad to support me in any way," said Atwater, widow of famed GOP operative Lee Atwater.
Spearman was elected as a Democrat to the S.C. House in 1992 and switched to the Republican Party in 1995.
Burgess criticized Spearman's support of adding student test data to teacher evaluations. Spearman said she supports teacher evaluations that have multiple measures.
"It has to be a flashlight, not a hammer," she said.
Sheri Few, who was in third place Tuesday, said she and Spearman are too far apart on the issues.
The head of the nonprofit South Carolina Parents Involved in Education said she planned to talk to Atwater about her stance on Common Core, the state-based education standards that Few has opposed strongly, before deciding whether to make an endorsement.
"I think she's rather weak on that issue," Few said.
Atwater said she opposes Common Core, which has been a hot issue throughout the campaign.
"As a special-needs teacher, I know firsthand one size does not fit all," she said. "We need more choices for parents and less interference from the federal government."
Few said she will decide whether to simply endorse Atwater or rally her grassroots effort to support her.
Spearman also opposes Common Core but believes some parts in the standards could be used. She said the state should set its own standards and testing based on input from S.C. parents, teachers and businesses.
The rest of the Republican candidates defeated in Tuesday's primary either had not decided who to endorse or planned to stay neutral.
Meka Childs, who was deputy superintendent under current state education superintendent Mick Zais, will speak with both candidates soon, her campaign spokesman RJ May said.
Don Jordan, a math professor at the University of South Carolina, said he had not decided if he would have an endorsement.
Amy Cofield, an attorney and former teacher, and Elizabeth Moffly, who lost her third bid for superintendent on Tuesday, said they would remain neutral.
In addition to campaign issues, both Spearman and Atwater will have to battle low turnout in the runoff. A runoff in South Carolina is an extra challenge because candidates only have two weeks, Buchanan said.
Turnout in the runoff will likely be even lower June 24 than on Tuesday, when about 16 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls, according to the State Election Commission.
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Just before the start of the spring campaign, FK Željezničar coach Amar Osim told UEFA.com that his side would play a significant role in the title race in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It looks like he was right.
While the Sarajevo club went in at the winter break fifth in the table, and seven points adrift of leaders NK Široki Brijeg, they are now up into second. Having won 2-0 at Široki Brijeg on 7 March – beating them at their Pecara stadium for the first time in a decade – they are now second, with FK Borac Banja Luka three points above.
That victory at Široki Brijeg was crucial in terms of giving fans the belief that a first title since 2001/02 – and a record-breaking fourth in total – was not beyond the former railway workers' team. They will doubtless know their destiny a little better when Osim's men meet Banja Luka on 17 April.
For now, Samir Bekrić – who is second to only Alen Mešanović in the team's top-scorer rankings for the season – is feeling optimistic. "We are playing well and closed the gap on the leading teams quite fast," he said. "The most important thing is that we brought the fans back to the Grbavica stadium but there is a difficult fight ahead if we want to see our dream made reality."
Željezničar could yet be eyeing up a double, having beaten NK Zrinjski 3-1 at home in the first leg of the Bosnian Cup semi-finals, while Borac look the favourites to meet them, having come from 2-0 down at FK Slavija Sarajevo to earn a 2-2 draw in the other last-four duel. The deciders are scheduled for 14 April.
In the meantime, the pressure is on at the bottom with a new coach, Dragoslav Stjepanović, having helped bottom side FK Laktaši pick up some good results. Five defeats in a row have seen FK Modriča fall to within three points of the back markers, prompting coach Marko Stojić's resignation.
FK Rudar Prijedor boss Darko Nestorović has also stepped down after four years in charge following some mixed results, with his replacement Boris Gavran leading them out of the relegation zone for the time being with a 2-0 win against Zrinjski. FK Sarajevo also have a new coach, with former assistant Almir Turković stepping up to replace Mehmed Janjoš after a run of three 1-0 away defeats.
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The birth of the Gardiner Expressway
The Gardiner â it's the expressway Toronto loves to hate. Controversial from the get-go, it was initially built in stages between 1955 and 1966, completely transforming the city's waterfront. An expressway along the current route was actually proposed back in 1947 and approved by the City's Works Committee before being voted down by council later that year.
The plan was subsequently abandoned until 1953, when Executive Committee chair Fredrick Gardiner brought it back to life just prior to the foundation of Metropolitan Toronto. Although the planning went somewhat more smoothly this time around, the route was revised a number of times due to local opposition, the most notable of which related to a plan to take the expressway right across the Fort York site.
When completed in 1966, the Gardiner extended from west of the Humber River to Leslie Street. Since then there have been more than a few calls to demolish the highway, replace it with a tunnel, and to turn it into a park. None of those have come to pass â although the section between the Don Valley to Leslie Street was knocked down in 2001.
Here are photos of the birth of the Gardiner.
From the Toronto Daily Star in 1947
Across the Humber, 1956
Jameson to York Street section prior to construction, Ca. 1959
Jameson to York Street early construction, 1959
Same area, later that year.
Construction near the Ex, 1959
1959, construction with Royal York Hotel in the distance
Construction, 1959
Construction, 1959
Dufferin Bridge, 1959
Below Dufferin Bridge
The view from a similar angle today
Aerial view, 1960 (at the Humber River where the Palace Pier Condos and Arch Bridge are located today)
Aerial view, 1960 (this was the final nail in the coffin for Sunnyside Amusement Park)
Construction near Jarvis Street, 1963
Construction near Lake Shore Avenue East, 1963
Photos from the Toronto Archives. Contemporary photo by sjgardiner.
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Group of ISPs issue tips for dealing with bots
The document from the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) is aimed at helping network operators detect bots, notify customers they are infected and limit the infection. MAWWG includes companies such as Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
Bots, or networks of infected computers, send spam or run denial-of-service attacks (DoS). Though 80 percent of consumers are aware of the risks that bots pose, only 20 percent believe they have ever been infected, according to a survey from MAAWG released in July.
"Bots now are really designed now to fly under the radar," Michael O'Reirdan, MAAWG chairman told SCMagazineUS.com on Friday. "They are written so they are not using a lot of computer resources."
O'Reirdan said there are signs that a machine may be infected with a bot. For example, speed may be degraded or emails the owner never sent may be bounced back.
To detect bots, the paper recommends utilizing one of the many free online scanning tools that are available from security vendors such as Kaspersky or McAfee.
Once it is determined that a user is part of a botnet, users must take immediate steps, the document states. All important data on the computer should be backed up and all operating system and anti-virus patches should be updated. To remove the infection, various free online tools are recommended in the document, such as Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool.
The paper also addresses concerns over privacy -- an issue that must be taken into consideration when ISPs monitor their pipes for infection.
"The detection of malware can often be a more intense process that exposes user data to greater scrutiny and, as such, there is a duty to ensure that user information is adequately protected," the document says.


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6. Assists teacher by maintaining student records, recording daily attendance, grading assignments, administering standardized tests, recording and/or analyzing test scores/grades, substituting as needed, setting up special projects, escorting children to other areas of the school, monitoring student behavior, running errands.
7. Collects and receipts monies for monthly activity fees, school fees, school pictures, and/or meal fees.
8. Supervises and assists students when unloading and loading buses, in the halls, on field trips, during testing, during lunch, during computer lab, and on school grounds.
9. Assists students with special needs and/or in need of special attention; provides assistance with daily living routines, skills and concepts including personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, self-feeding; may assist with physical health programs including physical therapy and adjusting special/adaptive equipment for student use; lifts or assists students in and out of special needs equipment as necessary.
10. Assists in establishing and implementing behavioral objectives. Models appropriate social and play skills; observes students' behavior and notifies teacher and/or school nurse of behavioral changes as appropriate; redirects behavior if possible; may work with individual students to help them adjust behaviorally and academically into mainstream classroom and social situations.
11. May coordinate and/or participate in special programs or projects as assigned.
12. Receives and responds to inquiries from parents and others; assists in preparing notes and placing phone calls to parents as necessary and when directed to do so by the teacher.
13. Attends staff meetings as required; participates in in-service training programs; keeps abreast of developments in areas of assignment.
14. Performs routine clerical tasks as required, including but not limited to preparing reports and records, copying and filing documents, entering and retrieving computer data, preparing notices and newsletters, receiving and responding to e-mails.
15. Performs other related duties as assigned or directed.
Requires graduation from an accredited college or university with an Associate?s degree, or two (2) years of college (minimum of 48 semester hours) from an, or a passing score on the ParaPro Assessment Test and one (1) year of experience working with children in an educational setting preferred. Must possess or be able to obtain certification in CPR and First Aid.
Basic knowledge of or the ability and/or willingness to obtain knowledge of child growth and development, instructional procedures and practices applicable to assignment, instructional goals and policies of the Memphis City Schools, and subject matter reinforcement practices of the classes to which assigned; ability to implement teachers' instructional plans in assigned field; considerable patience and ability to work effectively with children, young adults, and faculty members; ability to assist with the implementation of an instructional program and to participate in monitoring and ensuring appropriate student behavior;
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Tired of the time and money needed to keep up with today's female beauty standards? Thinking about plastic surgery because makeup just won't cut it anymore? Fortunately, there's a new product that will help women overcome these problems: the Uniface mask.
The mask seeks to deliver a "dream fulfilling face that satisfies today's beauty standards" – all for just $399.99. The mask features saucer-like eyes, luscious lashes, a high nose bridge, narrow chin and cheeks.
Uniface is made of an extremely thin "bionic-skin" and is applied with "cell-blending" glue so that women won't even feel like they're wearing anything, which is good since it can only be removed by a trained technician. Luckily, the rest of the upkeep is incredibly simple — the mask, like regular skin, only requires a simple wash.
There's one major problem standing between interested customers and the Uniface beauty mask, though: no physical and online retailers stock the mask because it doesn't actually exist. Instead it was a thesis project of Zhuoying (Joy) Li, an Interaction Design student at NYU.
Li, who moved from China to the US during high school, created the project to comment on the pressure that women, particularly Chinese women, face to conform to mainstream beauty standards and its effect on self-esteem.
"The longer I stay in the US, the more important I feel individuality is regarding facial appearance, which is the opposite in China," she told CNET last month.
In addition to the mask, Li also designed an accompanying, and very professional-looking, website, "to ironically communicate how media has manipulated women's desire to have the same extreme facial features," she wrote on the project's thesis page.
"Uniface is intended to raise the awareness of this beauty issue, and to make women rethink about what they are doing to themselves."


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Make a real style statement in this Dalila Pink African Print Skirt. Love bright, vibrant, coloured clothing? Then african print is your number one style choice. Beautifully tailored this Pink African Print Skater Skirt offers a fun and super stylish look. A fresh take on a classic and elegant skater skirt design. Make this Dalila Pink African Print Skirt your go to for daytime or evening wear, guaranteed to turn heads for all the right reasons.
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Now that you're 40 and over, you've probably got a whole lot more going on in your life than when you were 20. During your 20s and 30s, most people worry about just three big things; work life, social life and love life. A lot of your out-of-work pursuits at that age probably revolved around looking good and having fun. Your enthusiasm for training was probably a lot higher as well, especially since you were most likely making regular gains.
As you crept close to 40 and beyond though, while things seem to be more stable in a sense, you also seem to have less time. You've got more responsibilities and fitness and results seem to have slumped. However, this is really the perfect time to reassess your priorities and focus on things you can control. This is also the perfect time for you to get healthy and start building muscle so you can maximise your quality of life later on. Whether you've let yourself go or just want to find a way to boost your gains again, we've got the perfect guide to help you build some serious muscle after 40.
Strength & Weight Training for Over 40s
A lot of trainers in their 40s often ask whether it's still possible to build substantial amounts of muscle at that age. The answer is a resounding YES! Whether you're in your early 40s or late 40s, muscle building is definitely still achievable. However, you're going to have to be patient because you're going to have a couple of things working against you now that you're a bit older. Here are 3 tips to help maximise muscle gain for over 40s:
- Increase risk of injury is one of the main concerns for trainers over 40. Decreased physical activity and more lax ligaments and tendons means that you're going to have to go a bit slower than you would have in your teens and 20s. Start with machine based exercises, which have more stability and slowly increase the amount of weight lifted. Form is extra important as jerky movements only increase your chance of injury.
- Rest Up – As you age, fatigue tends to set in faster and recovery processes tend to take slightly longer. To build muscle, power and strength, make sure you rest adequately between sets. As you progress, you can definitely increase the intensity by decreasing rest periods, however, it's important to continue resting up well on your days off and getting enough sleep. On particular heavy training days, make sure you get a good 8 hours if possible to help support maximum gains.
- Keep it Simple – Most training routines you see these days are either too complex or too unstructured. They often incorporate a wide variety of exercises, most performed at submaximal efforts. Building muscle isn't rocket science. Stick to the basics and rather focus on lifting to fatigue, keeping in mind the first point.
Cardio for Over 40s
While building muscle mass with weight training is important, to further increase your potential for future gains, cardio is incredibly crucial. Not only does cardio help to improve a range of metabolic functions, which can be help prevent the development of chronic diseases such as diabetes and metabolic syndrome, research has shown that performing cardio when you're older helps to support mitochondrial biogenesis. That is, it helps to boost the energy generating potential of your muscles. Translation? More energy to work out and more gains. To get the most out of your cardio after 40, here are 3 tips:
- As you age, fatigue tends to set in a lot faster, lung volumes and degree of blood flow decreases and functioning of the central nervous system declines. All that means is you should start slow and build up in small increments. Particular exercises are also more taxing than others, such as rowing/erg machine and running, so interval training might be an ideal mode of training rather than steady state exercise. You'll find that interval training will also offer better results.
- Impact injuries are also a cause for concern. Try to vary your cardio routines with a range of different exercises and training modalities. Go from higher impact activities such as running, sprinting and skipping to lower impact ones such as swimming, cycling and the cross trainer. Varying the exercises will also be better for your overall metabolism.
- While structured cardio is important, incidental increases in heart rate is also key to keeping you healthy and lean. Make sure you have an active break from work every 3 hours. This can be as little as 5-10 minutes of walking or climbing stairs. Even dynamic stretches will get your heart rate up and support muscle building processes.
Food, Diet & Nutrition for Over 40s
As most of you already know, your metabolism will decline as you age. Everything you eat and drink will be more easily stored as fat and attention to diet quality becomes all the more important. To build maximum amounts of muscle, you also want to show that off by decreasing your body fat percentage. To help you do this, here are some great tips to get your diet in check:
- Boost Your Protein – The majority of your protein intake should be from actual foods. Aim for a higher protein diet with lean meats, fish, eggs, legumes, nuts and dairy.
- Lay off the Junk – This may be obvious, but it is also one of the most common traits that seem to reoccur whenever anyone starts a diet. People often falter during and around work times, especially during after work drinks and business meetings. They indulge in all sorts of snacks which are going to wreak havoc on your fat percentage. To help combat this, spend some time buying or preparing higher protein or lower calorie snacks. Making the time to eat more regularly (4-5 meals/day) will also help you maintain hunger levels and avoid you from gorging yourself.
- More Vegetables – Effective muscle building requires more than just protein. The right micronutrients can really make a significant difference to muscle function and neural pathways. While the average person tends to consume enough of most food groups, vegetables and fruits is where people falter. While fruits are beneficial, vegetables are even better and packed more with nutrients to help you perform and recover better. Aim for 5 serves a day and use two in a smoothie if needed, but don't throw away the fibre.
Supplements for Over 40s
When it comes to supplementation, most of the recommendations still apply. Your foundation supplements for muscle building will continue to be protein and creatine. Ensure you have 1-2 serves of protein at least to compensate for increased protein needs as you age. Creatine dosing recommendations remain the same and depends whether you're loading or maintaining, but 5g/day is a good figure to stick with. Further from that though, there are a couple of supplements that you want to incorporate which will help boost your muscle gain capacity.
- Testosterone Support Supplements – As you know, testosterone levels tend to decline as you age, which can result in decreased capacity to build muscle, strength declines, increased fat mass and decreased sex strive. None of these are ideal, but you can help to alleviate many of these negative side effects with the right test support supplements. You can also stack these with anti-estrogen products for even more pronounced effect.
- Growth Hormone Support Supplements – As with testosterone, your levels of growth hormone will decrease as you age. In fact, growth hormone secretions can drop by as much as 60-70% between your mid 20s and your mid 40s. Drops in growth hormone also negatively affects body composition, making it harder to gain muscle and easier to gain fat. Which is why a good growth hormone optimiser supplement can help you to continue to build muscle, even as you age.
- Joint Support Supplements – Besides affecting muscles, ageing will impact bones and joints. Brittleness and pain often occurs which can hamper your training effort and recovery. Besides exercise, investing in a good joint supplement can ease some of these symptoms and also improve your long term prospects. Adding an omega 3 supplement can also be beneficial.
Gaining Muscle for Over 40s
Just because you've hit your 40s is no reason not to continue to train. In fact, there would be more reasons to actually continue to work out. Studies have shown that you can still hit the same level of muscle protein synthesis or muscle building as you age, so there is no reason why you shouldn't be hitting the weights and aiming to pack on some lean mass. Now that you know what to do, there's really no better time than now to hit the gym again.


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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Raining on New Years
So it rained on New Years. Not a light rain, but a steady and heavy rain. All night. Like Mother Nature was releasing all of her hurt and anguish from 2006. Or maybe she was sharing tears of happiness for all the memorable moments. I got to thinking about how wonderful an experience it was to run around in the rain on New Years Eve. Cleansing one year from my body and starting clean. Washing away the past and emerging refreshed as we counted down the seconds. What a spectacular way to wind up one year and embrace the next. How symbolic. I wish for 2007 to be as great as 2006. And I have a very sneaking suspicion that it will be just brilliant. Happy New Year everyone.
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