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Saint Vincent College is a welcoming environment, sharing the core values of the Benedictine tradition, especially hospitality, community, love, prayer and respect for the dignity of all.
Founded in 1848 by Boniface Wimmer, a monk from Bavaria, we are the first Benedictine college in the United States. Saint Vincent College has striven to embody the ideals and character of the 1,500-year-old heritage of Benedictine education. For 170 years, the monks of Saint Vincent have exemplified and carried on this living Benedictine tradition.
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Claire C. Jackman of Strongsville, Ohio, a senior majoring in biology and minoring in psychology and mathematics, is teaching chickens where to peck as part of her senior research project under the direction of Dr. James Kellam, associate professor of biology.
Jackman has set up a small chicken coop with 16 chickens on campus as her research laboratory. "I am feeding half of my chickens a daily dose of DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid," she explained. "I am training all of the chickens three times a week to learn a cognitive task. I have a lot of raw data to analyze, but my hypothesis was that the chickens receiving the DHA would be able to learn the task more quickly than the control chickens."
So how is she teaching the chickens? "I have three shapes of relatively the same size and color, a triangle, circle and square," she explained. "My goal is to teach the chickens that I want them to peck the triangle. I started with heaping food onto the triangle and tapping next to it while recording how many times the chicken pecked. I then moved on to placing one piece of food and tapping and recording the number of pecks and the temperament of the bird. Then I would tap next to the triangle with no food on it and reward the chicken with food from my other hand if they pecked the triangle. I record the number of times they have successful pecks with each kind of triangle variation and I also record the amount of errors they have when they peck at the wrong shapes. I will create a spectrum of these results and create a grading system so I can analyze the progress of the chickens quantitatively as well as qualitatively with my observations of their behaviors."
"I am also recording head circumference at the beginning and end of the experiment and chest circumference and body weight each week in order to see if there is any correlation between size and task performance," she added.
Why would she want to teach chickens to peck selectively? "I am interested in cognitive psychology as well as neuroscience, so I wanted to see if supplements marketed to improve memory and cognitive function truly work and if the results could be seen through using young chickens as a model," she concluded.
The chickens stay in the coop at all times except when she is training them individually. They can scratch in the grass in the coop or go into the loft during the day. However, she locks them into the loft at night in case a raccoon were to somehow get in the enclosure.
Jackman said that her research will help her with her future work and education. "Any research experience is valuable but I am especially interested in conducting cognitive research in the future as a career." She plans to present the results of her research at the annual student research conference on campus in the spring.
Jackman, a 2014 graduate of Strongsville High School, chose to study at Saint Vincent because of the small school environment and the excellent science facilities.
She has been very active at Saint Vincent as a work/study assistant in the Office of Alumni Relations and as an Ambassador in the Office of Admission. She has completed internships at Palmer's Farm as a seasonal farm intern and at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a student workforce trainee.
Jackman, who currently serves as president of the Student Government Association executive board, previously served as a senator and as executive secretary of SGA.
She has been honored with membership in Alpha Lambda Delta (for excellent academic achievement in her first year of study), Alpha Chi (for scholarship as a junior and senior), Beta Beta Beta biology honor society and Psi Chi national honor society in psychology.
She has also been active on the Dance Team, Women's Rugby Club, Orientation Committee and Catholic Relief Services. She completed a Campus Ministry-sponsored service trip to China and Taiwan in 2015.
After she completes her undergraduate studies in the spring, she plans to pursue a doctorate in psychology.
Photo: Claire Jackman, a senior biology major at Saint Vincent, is teaching chickens to selectively peck as part of her senior research project.
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The keynote speaker on tourism will be the Dominican Republic's Minister of Tourism, Francisco Javier Garcia, who is scheduled to deliver a conference titled "Reaching the Country's Goal: 10 Million Tourists."
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Amicus Brief, Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
Amicus Brief, Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
The United States Student Association ("USSA"), the nation's oldest and largest student- run, student-led organization, is comprised of more than four million students with diverse backgrounds who are currently enrolled in American colleges and universities.2 USSA submits this brief as amicus curiae in support of Respondents University of Texas at Austin, et al., urging the Court to affirm the Fifth Circuit's judgment that the promotion of diversity in higher education is a compelling government interest and that the holistic admissions process used by the University of Texas at Austin ("UT"), which allows the consideration of race and ethnic origin as one of a multitude of factors in selecting a diverse study body, complies with the Equal Protection Clause.
As the nation's official student voice, consisting of undergraduate, graduate and professional students in colleges and universities across the country, USSA has an important and substantial interest in this case.3 Amicus submits this brief to express to the Court its strong belief, based on the experience of its millions of members, that a student body that is both academically qualified and broadly diverse provides invaluable educational, social and professional benefits, and that an admissions program such as that adopted by UT will advance those compelling interests.
Nine years ago, the Supreme Court recognized that public institutions of higher education have a compelling government interest in a diverse student body that permits them to consider race and ethnicity as one, non-predominant factor among many in admissions. Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306, 328 (2003). The Court noted the "important and laudable" benefits stemming from a diverse student body, which Amicus believes are even more "important and laudable" in today's more diverse America.
Amicus is uniquely situated to comment on the value of diversity in higher education today as its student body members both experience the benefits of diversity and suffer from its absence. Studies published after the decision in Grutter have confirmed what the Court recognized and Amicus knows as a matter of fact—that students benefit in at least three ways from greater diversity both in and out of the classroom. First, student body diversity exposes students to a robust exchange of ideas which promotes better learning outcomes. Second, diversity prepares students to become civic leaders. Third, diversity better prepares students as professionals to meet the challenges of a multi- cultural workforce in an increasingly global economy.
Amicus believes that Grutter is, and must remain, good law as the Fifth Circuit held. If the Fifth Circuit judgment is reversed, public institutions of higher education will fail to attract a critical mass of racially diverse students. College students nationwide will be deprived of experiencing the full "diffusion of knowledge and opportunity" that should be available through public institutions of higher education (Grutter, 539 U.S. at 331) and the diverse learning environment and rich exchange of ideas they need to maximize their opportunities for civic leadership and professional success. As the Court recognized in Grutter, access to education "must be inclusive of talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity, so that all members of our heterogeneous society may participate in the educational institutions that provide the training and education necessary to succeed in America." Id. at 332-33.


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Meeting point is in Heidis Hütte, where you get served various regional Valais delights.
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Race participants will climb 3,266 feet–more than 2.5 miles–up Aspen Mountain's snowy terrain, guided only by the light of headlamps. Don't fret too much about the cold conditions though, as you'll be welcomed at the summit with a post-race banquet complete with a lasagna dinner from the Little Nell, live music from the soulful John Truscelli Band, and an award ceremony honoring the top three finishers and fundraisers (past prizes include free ski poles!). Proceeds benefit the Chris Klug Foundation, which raises awareness and advocates for organ and tissue donation. Sat 5 p.m.
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When you enter the gallery, they seem to float: seven antique quilts, time-worn and softly colored, suspended on invisible wires.
The quilts, overlaid front and back with texts drawn from treaties between the U.S. government and Native American tribes, entice with their beauty, then deliver a punch to the gut as the words spelled out in calico letters reveal themselves.
"Its Honor Is Here Pledged" by Lawrence artist Gina Adams, on display through May 10 at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, reflects the layered and fractured history of European settlers and Native American tribes.
Adams juxtaposes well-worn quilts, a symbol of comfort and home, with harsh treaty conditions that pushed natives from their ancestral lands.
Words crowd the quilts from edge to edge, and the different colors and patterns on each letter make them difficult to read.
"I wanted them to be challenging to read, because the language in the documents was meant to be confusing so that nothing could be pinned down to them later. It is confusing to me, and I have a master's degree. You can imagine how confusing it would be to someone who didn't even know the language," Adams said.
For example: "If bad men among the whites or among other people subject to the authority of the United States shall commit wrong upon the person or the property of the Indians the United States will upon proof made to the agent and forwarded to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington City proceed at once to have the offender arrested and punished."
The treaties are personal to Adams. Her grandfather was born into the Ojibwe tribe and forced to attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Penn.
"My grandfather called Carlisle 'White Man Training School.' It was forced assimilation," she said.
Adams, a professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, began studying the treaties in college, reading the research of Jesuit historian Francis Paul Prucha. Prucha has called the treaties "political anomalies" because the Indians were in a position of dependence and inequality rather than sovereignty when the documents were signed.
Choosing chunks of text that would fit on the quilts and cutting out the letters by hand seared some conditions into Adams' memory. For example, the Fort Laramie Treaty with the Lakota Sioux stipulated that the tribe would receive $1,500, but from that, $500 would be deducted to cover the cost of the U.S. Army relocating itself, and another $500 would be deducted to move a blacksmith shop from the site of the new reservation.
Three of the quilts directly pertain to the history of Kansas because they are taken from treaties signed in Medicine Lodge in 1867 with the Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes.
One quilt starts: "From this day forward all war between the parties on this agreement shall forever cease. The Government of the United States desires peace and its honor is here pledged to keep it."
"Those treaties are still relevant today," museum director Bruce Hartman said.
On the walls behind each quilt, the names of the Native Americans who were forced to sign the treaties appear to rise out of shadows cast by the quilts. Most of the signers used an X-mark because they were unfamiliar with the language. A translator gave the English version of each name, but some names are not right because of the translator's limited knowledge of the tribal language.
"I wanted them to have a say here," Adams said.
The exhibit also honors the anonymous women who created the vintage quilts. "You go to a farm sale and these quilts get auctioned off, and there is not history of the women who really invested themselves in them. That relates to how the native people, artists as well as leaders who signed the treaties, are so often forgotten," Hartman said.
Hartman was also drawn to the quilts because of the way Adams took a traditional art form, quilting, and made it very contemporary with the overlay of the language from the treaties.
Adams is a painter/printmaker by training, but her experience with quilting is deep and familial. One aunt has a bed covered with a stack of 300 quilts she has made, and Adams' mother was a dressmaker. Adams recalls sitting with a needle and threads, sewing under her mother's legs while her mother worked at a sewing machine.
Adams, too, used a machine — a small quilters' Bernina — to create what she calls her "broken treaty" quilts.
She began by finding quilts that were aged and marked from use.
"I wanted them to have this feeling of time. Some have holes, tears, stains, one has a tiny blood stain. The holes in the quilt signify the holes in the original document," Adams said.
Then she picked vintage-looking calico in many patterns for the letters. She chose an antique font, Goudy Old Style, because "that font invokes language and draws on memory."
The resulting effect of a lacework of colorful letters overlaid on a geometric background is visually stunning, but Adams says that was not a concern when making the quilts.
"I thought of them being daring and impactful, never beautiful. I thought it was important to have this thing spoken that people don't talk about," she said.
And yet with the exhibit, Adams is perhaps unconsciously showing that despite all the broken promises and brutality that feed her art, there remains in Native American culture an abiding beauty and rich heritage that cannot be extinguished.
To reach Cindy Hoedel, call 816-234-4304 or send email to email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @CindyHoedel, and on Facebook.
On display
"Its Honor Is Here Pledged" by Gina Adams is showing in conjunction with two other Native American exhibitions: "To Honor the Unidentified," also by Adams, and "Mapping Coyote Black" by Natalie Ball. All three run through May 10 at the Nerman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday; admission is free. For more information, call 913-469-3000 go or to NermanMuseum.org.


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PROTESTERS are preparing to put their bodies on the line and jump into the water if Gold Coast City Council trucks start dumping dirt to fill in Black Swan Lake at Bundall.
This comes as Council and the Gold Coast Turf Club are preparing to relocate wildlife before beginning the process of filling in the native habitat "any day now".
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Ms Baker said while swans and other native birds could be moved, other amphibians such as turtles and frogs would simply be "buried alive" once the trucks started dumping dirt.
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"They won't catch them all (to relocate them) they don't care and will just dump dirt on top of them all.
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A Council spokesman said he could not comment on an exact time frame for when works would start on filling the lake.
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RANGERS skipper Lee McCulloch has agreed to extend his stay at the Ibrox club after penning a new two-year deal.
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The Deadly Paradox
Science likes paradoxes. Science fiction loves them even more. In the world of science fiction, a paradox can even destroy a big evil computer. Personally I've always felt that was a bit of a cop-out. You must have seen one of those episodes of Star Trek where an evil super computer is about to kill everyone on the Enterprise and then Captain Kirk rolls out an amazing paradox like..."So, you are going to destroy us because you are Godlike? But ... isn't God Love? So how can killing everyone be an act of a Godlike creature?" and then the machine goes into a recursive loop until blue white sparks fly out of its console, everyone staggers from side to side a bit and the whole thing blows up. The Enterprise, saved by the power of paradox, once again!
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Leadership Stories - Marine Corps Rifle Range
It was at the rifle range one of my fellow recruits lost it!
During the second week of the rifle range we actually got to qualify with the M16A1 rifle.
That first week was necessary but it was filled with extras that I would have preferred to do without. Those hours and hours of sighting in on a little black spot on a white barrel just was not my idea of fun. Again I suppose necessary, just not fun.
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There would almost always be someone that would try to move before he said the "All clear".
Maybe I should say hand!
During one of the firing sequences he placed his hand out in front of the rifle barrel and shot a hole through his hand.
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They always had Medic's on the firing line and they were scrambling over to this knuckle head.
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The only problem was that he was still there after we had graduated from boot camp.
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Why do Muslims believe in mohammed when it says in the quran that Jesus is the Messiah
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Well this is a very strange question. Muslims do indeed believe that Jesus is the Messiah. The Qur'an says so and that's all there is to it for them.
Unfortunately, if you ask Muslims what it means for Jesus to be THE Messiah, they will most likely have no clue why. The Qur'an says Jesus is the Messiah but gives no explanation as to the significance of having the title "The Messiah".
There are many Messiahs in the Hebrew scriptures, yet there is one ultimate Messiah who gets the title "THE Messiah".
Muslims have no idea why Jesus is called the Messiah because the Qur'an never explains, nor am I aware of any explanation that Muhammad gave in the Hadiths.
So Muslims will proclaim very boldly "No Muslim is a Muslim unless he believes in Jesus Christ". And that is true to an extant, but not in the way they want you to think.
When Muslims say they believe in Jesus, what they are referring to (and they are being very anachronistic here), they are referring to what the Qur'an says about Jesus, not what Christians have believed about Jesus from the time of the Apostolic Age until Muhammad's time and even until today.
Put it this way: if someone came along 600 years after the time of Muhammad and said 'I believe in Muhammad too!" to a Muslim; that Muslim out of curiosity would probably ask 'Well do you believe he received the Revelation of the Qur'an?' That someone would say 'no'. Then the Muslims ask, 'Well do you believe that Muhammad took the night journey?' That someone would say 'no'. Then the Muslim finally asks 'Well do you believe that Muhammad preached Islam and taught his followers to pray 5 times a day?' The someone for the 3rd time would say 'no'. Then after 3 no's the Muslim would say 'then you don't believe in Muhammad'.
Now let's compare that to the Muslim claim and see if it holds up to scrutiny:
Muhammad comes along 600 years after Jesus and let's imagine an imaginary conversation between Muhammad and an Orthodox Christian:
Muhammad: I believe in Jesus Christ.
Christian: Do you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins?
Muhammad: No, according to Surah 4:157, Jesus did not die on the cross.
Christian: Do you believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead?
Muhammad: No, how could Jesus rise from the dead if he never died in the first place according to Surah 4:157.
Christian: Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Divine Son of God?
Muhammad: God forbid! If you believe that he is, according to Surah 5:73 you are going to Hell and according to Surah 9:30, God will fight those who utter this lie against God.
Christian: Well then you don't believe in Jesus.
Consider the core of the Christian Gospel: Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins, rose again, and is the Divine Son of God.
You can hold any view of the Bible you wish, but deny any core element of the Christian Gospel and you are damned.
Think about what Muhammad is saying:
"You Christians, you believe in God? So do I. You believe Jesus was born of a Virgin? So do I. You believe that Jesus performed all these miracles? So do I. You believe Jesus is the Messiah? So do I....There are just 3 things that I will have to disagree with you on...Jesus Christ did not die on the cross, he did not rise from the dead, and he is not the Divine Son of God. But other than that, we are like good buddies!"
At this point, the Christian should be saying:
'Boy we've been waiting for you obvious false prophet; because according to my Bible, false prophets are going to come along and try to corrupt the core of the Christian Gospel (Galatians 1:8, 1 Timothy 4:1-2, 1 John 2:22)'.
The reason why this is so damaging to Islam is not only does the Bible as it stand, expose Muhammad as a preacher of a false Gospel and an Antichrist, but Muhammad himself appealed to the Bible in his day to show that he was predicted in our scriptures:
"Those who follow the Messenger, the Prophet, the Ummi whom they find mentioned in the Torah and the Gospel which are with them." (Qur'an 7:157)
The passage is in the present tense, so whatever scripture Muhammad was referring to, he was referring to the scritures that the Jews and Christians at his time had access to. Historically speaking, there is no question that the only scriptures the Jews and Christians had access to was the Torah and the New Testament we have today. Not only is such a prophecy not there, the Bible actually proves Muhammad is an Antichrist.
In 1 John 2:22, it says anyone who comes along and claims that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God is an Antichrst.
Muhammad denied that Jesus is the Son; thereby, he is an Antichrist.
So it is ironic, that Muhammad's appeal to the Bible comes back to refute him and expose him as an Antichrist.
Given what the Bible says about Muhammad and Muhammad's hilarious fail in appealing to this Bible to prove he was predicted in our scriptures, why should anyone believe this Antichrist?
Muslims might claim to believe in Jesus Christ, but they believe in a counterfeit Jesus cooked up by an Antichrist to damn people to Hell.
Anytime a Muslim claims "No Muslim is a Muslim unless he/she believes in Jesus Christ."; ask them what it means for Jesus to be the Messiah. They will have no meaningful response. We have the answer, they don't. Don't buy into their deception, they are only saying that for you to consider Islam then damn you to Hell once you fall for the deception of the religion of Islam.
In sum, the Muslims claim to believe in something, but when you dig a little deeper, you you find that their claim is meaningless. Just as it is meaningless for someone to claim to believe in Muhammad but deny that the Angel Gabriel gave him the revelation of the Qur'an, that he took the night journey, and that he taught Islam and taught his followers to pray 5 times a day.
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Well nothing more needs to be said. This isn't really a debate to be honest. Muslims do believe Jesus is the Messiah but they have no idea what that means.
They think Messiah simply means a prophet, but that is not at all what the term means. The Messiah is the Savior of Israel and of the whole world. Islam strips Jesus of his title 'Savior' by denying his Crucifixion. It is interesting to ponder the lengths false prophets will go to in order to deny what Jesus did for us.
Islam claims to believe in Jesus, but dig a little deeper and they don't understand the implications of calling Jesus the Messiah.
I don't think my respected opponent would disagree with anything I have said so far.
Thiest_1998 forfeited this round.
Nothing left for me to say really. Thiest hasn't been interacting with the points made. Keep that in mind...he was the one who issued this debate and he's the one ignoring what is being said.
Thiest_1998 forfeited this round.
I have nothing else to say really...
Thiest_1998 forfeited this round.
Muslims claim to believe Jesus is the Messiah, but have no idea the implications of what they are saying. The Messiah does NOT mean a prophet who simply says 'God is one' and 'believe in God and you will be saved'. The Messiah is the Savior of the World. Jesus is the only Savior of the world. Muhammad strips Jesus of his title 'Savior' by denying his atoning death on the cross. Muhammad was fooled by Satan to mislead people into believing in a Jesus who doesn't save people from their sins, something the Bible says false prophets would do, and Muhammad ends up being the number one person in history to fulfill.
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Earlier this month, while Republicans in Congress were torpedoing efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, leaders in Seattle took a big step in the opposite direction - announcing a plan that would require employers to pay workers in the city at least $15 per hour.
Seattle isn't alone. This year, at least 34 state legislatures are considering bills to increase the minimum wage, which is great news. But a lot depends on how robust the proposed increases in each state are; we can't be content with minor increases that barely make up for the languishing national minimum. So that workers can have a shot at paying for life's basic necessities and pulling themselves out of poverty, more city and state governments should consider following Seattle's lead.
As millions of low-wage workers know, the current federal minimum is woefully insufficient. Until a few decades ago, the minimum wage could keep a family of two above the poverty line. At $15,080 annually for a full-time worker making $7.25 per hour, that's not the case today. Its real value is also lower now than it was in 1950.
Things are also precarious for most tipped workers, whose minimum wage is a paltry $2.13 per hour -- an amount that hasn't changed in more than twenty years. Subject to wide swings in how much they earn, tipped workers are more than twice as likely to face poverty than other workers. The proposal to boost the federal minimum wage to $10.10 supported by President Obama and Democrats in Congress would raise their minimum to a more reasonable 70% of the overall minimum wage. In many states and cities, though, these workers -- the majority of whom are women -- are specifically exempted from the wage increases. We need to ensure these workers aren't left behind as standards rise for the rest of the workforce.
It is critical that states and cities continue to step up because we cannot expect reforms at the federal level anytime soon. President Obama and other Democrats deserve credit for trying, but hoping for action from Republicans who are committed to thwarting positive change would be foolish. Indeed, Republicans in Congress refused to seriously consider the $10.10 proposal, which would benefit more than 28 million workers. Those elected officials are simply not listening to their constituents; most registered Republicans and small business owners backed that idea. A recent poll even found support for raising the minimum wage among a key Republican Party constituency: millionaires.
Predictably, this move toward setting a new, higher minimum wage standard has raised the ire of conservatives fearful of the growing nationwide movement to improve the pay and conditions for low-wage workers. You've heard their hollow arguments against raising the minimum wage before: It will kill jobs and harm the economy and businesses. These arguments aren't new; in 1959, Eleanor Roosevelt said she'd already been hearing those old chestnuts for 50 years.
But that tired rhetoric has been proven wrong time and again. Researchers have found the minimum wage has no noticeable effect on employment. And on the wage front, the opposite of conservatives' arguments is true: Raising wages will clearly help our economy, which barely grew in the first quarter of 2014, and remains weak overall. Putting more money in workers' pockets is good for everyone because it boosts consumer spending, which grows our economy. Without this boost, our economy will never recover from the hit it took from the financial crisis.
The growth in inequality in the past few decades and the tepid growth our economy is experiencing are perhaps the most serious challenges we face as a nation. Raising the minimum wage won't solve these problems overnight, but making sure workers earn enough to get by is critical to turning the tide and strengthening our economy. And it's something we should advance in our communities today.
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Football managers: Stress and health risks in the English Premier League
INSIDE THE COTTAGE – The Australian First Team Fitness Coach for Fulham Football Club, SCOTT MILLER gives an exclusive insight to the www.australiantimes.co.uk into the world of English Premier League football and how managers cope and deal with the stress of their high-pressured jobs.
It is a common theme in professional football where you hear of yet another manager's job under threat due to their team's current league position or persistent bad performances.
It is so common nowadays that a manager seemingly comes and goes and the scenario is constantly the same – he is sacked, his replacement is given the job to get the results on the board and improve the performances, a new manager comes in… And so the cycle goes.
The world of the professional football manger is one in which danger and uncertainty hang over every match the team plays. It is often a lonely and somewhat isolated position for a manager, which can leave many in the top job vulnerable to health risks, due to stress related issues.
I have worked for seven different managers during my time at the Fulham Football Club (Chris Coleman, Lawrie Sanchez, Roy Hodgson, Mark Hughes, Martin Jol, Rene meulensteen and current coach Felix Magath) and all of them have dealt with the demands and pressure of management in very different ways. Individually, their capacity to deal with success, defeat and player management issues have all be very different.
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The manager is the main man; he determines the tone of the week in his body language, training structure, and simply how he wants the training ground environment to be.
In today's professional football sphere – the manger's role encompasses the players, the club owners, the fans and lastly, the media. Just imagine the pressure involved in controlling all of these factors. Each of these factors place different, and often conflicting, demands on the manager, all of which are equally important. So, as you could easily imagine, this creates an intensely pressurised working environment.
The 'Houllier' syndrome:
We have witnessed, in recent years, various managers developing health concerns and in particular Gerard Houllier provides proof that football management can be bad for your health. Houllier has been admitted to hospital on several occasions thanks to his position as manager of different football clubs. Famously, a decade ago when in charge of Liverpool FC, the Frenchman underwent tests relating to his heart, and in worrying circumstances for his family and friends, underwent an 11 hour open heart surgery just to save his life.
Unfortunately, this is not new territory. Sam Allardyce, Graeme Souness and Joe Kinnear are among those who have suffered heart troubles related to the stress of football management.
The culture within a football club requires the manager to be strong and in control at all times, with no place for uncertainty or need for reassurance. The ego driven environment in which everyone is an expert, and the lack of control over one's destiny as the players ultimately decide a manager's fate through their performances – all contribute to possible stress related illness.
Each to their own:
As I mentioned above, all five of the mangers I have worked under have dealt with football related issues in different ways. I have seen players being pushed, verbally abused, bins thrown, kit skips being kicked, and I have even been used as a sounding board and copped an earful. Sitting in such close proximity to the manager, such as on the bench during a game, you really do get a feel for how they deal with the pressure. Some are worse at dealing with it than others, and it's always interesting playing away from home and seeing how other managers deal with it. Sometimes it's almost as if some managers are suffering from borderline Tourette's syndrome and obscene language and mannerisms are not uncommon during periods of bad play from their team.
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These are all ways in which frustration can be shown, however, is it right for the players to see this side of the manager? I believe in certain instances it most certainly is, every athlete needs to be told when things are not going well, however I have found that the best managers always provide a solution – and although you may be on the end of some aggressive criticism – the solution is usually provided for you to improve your performance.
A manager's mind must be a minefield – swaying from positives to negatives on an hourly basis, and generally the manager's mindset is always dependent on the outcome of the most recent match. It is a somewhat humorous situation when reflecting on a defeat and how the manager behaves, noone really wants to be the person to cop the grief, so there is a common saying such as "gaffer alert" which signifies that it's wisest if you become wallpaper, and don't say or do anything that could tip him over the edge!
A delicate balance:
A mindset of 'when you don't win people don't believe in you' and 'when you are winning you are never wrong' all indicate a lack of stability and balance. When the team is winning, the manager is powerful; when losing or drawing, that false sense of security of short-lived success is dangerous, as the winning coaching philosophy suddenly comes into question.
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We understand that low self confidence impacts a player's contribution to the game, however what impact does this have on the manager? The consequences are huge for managers. If the results are poor – the owner will still be the owner and the key decision maker; the players who have signed four year contracts worth millions will still be playing; the fans will still support the club – it is always the manager that will be bear the brunt. Sadly, in most cases, they are the cheapest to dispose of, and after all, it is their coaching philosophy determining the performances.
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Managers live on a constant knife edge. The fortunes of a season can change for the better (or worse) in just three or four games. However, what is important is that the manager and the coaching staff absorb the pressure and allow the players to perform to their potential.
Of course, there are different ways of dealing with stress, however the manager's overriding principle must be 'what do I want my players to perceive me as? – a nervous wreck or someone they can look to on the touchline and gain confidence and belief from'. At the end of the day, this might just determine his future (and his health).
Scott Miller is an Aussie expat living in London and the First Team Fitness Coach for Fulham Football Club. Follow him on Twitter at @ScottGMiller
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