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Strength & Conditioning Summer Manual
Islanders Sports Performance Clinic Information and Sign-Up
- 1. Ground-based Movements - sports are played standing up, so training will be done standing at least part of every workout. This can be accomplished through a variety of exercises ranging from plyometrics and Olympic lifts to med ball work.
- 2. Multiple Joint Movements - Exercises that involve more than one joint are superior to single joint movements for athletes due to their efficiency and similarity to actual competition; specifically, exercises that focus on the hip joint, where the strongest muscles of the human body are located. Snatch, clean, jerk, squat, dead-lift and all variants are the basis for increasing hip extension forces. (Competitive Olympic lifters, on average, have vertical jumps exceeding 36 inches are also among the fastest athletes in 25-meter sprints.).
Decrease Rate of Injuries - You can't play or train to your best ability if you are hurt. With that in mind, strength & conditioning focuses on safety in a threefold manner:
- 1. Safe Training Environment - proper warm-up, awareness of other lifters, use of spotters, collars and safety pins always in place.
- 2. Work to Correct Imbalances - use of a combination of rehab/pre-hab, mobility/flexibility and posterior chain exercises to prepare the body for the positions/situations most common to sport.
- 3. Proper Technique - proper training technique is a must. We teach athletes to properly stabilize, move and catch bodily and external weight in the aim that they will be more durable in generating force, absorbing landing forces or contact and stabilizing involved joints as required for their every-day sport movements.
Posterior Chain Strength - the posterior chain is all of the muscle systems on the back side of the body. Most of the movements in sport require athletes to push away, drive forward or get up. As a result, many athletes walk into a weight room anterior dominant. To correct this imbalance, exercises to train the posterior shoulders, upper back, low back, glutes, and hamstrings must be done, and done with INTENSITY. A strong posterior chain enables the athlete not only to stabilize joints and better decelerate for injury prevention, but generate more force as well (aids in both athletic movements and rate of injury!).
TRAIN HARD - "Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." --Ronald Osborn Most of those outside, looking into athletics only see the glamour and the glory of the competition. They want to be an athlete because they want to be cool. In reality, NOTHING about the journey leading up to that victory is very cool. The work that it takes to be successful is ugly, sweaty, dirty and guttural-it is almost impossible to look good doing it. You have to sell out and go for it to meet tough training or practice objectives. The goal of Islander Strength & Conditioning is for the effort it takes to perform to be much less painful than the effort required in training-better to sweat in practice than to bleed in battle! By training hard as a team, we strive to become the mentally and physically toughest competitors in the Southland Conference.

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tags for Notable Quotes and newsletter articles - combine with #214 &275
Original request #421: The ability to tag Notable Quotes and newsletter articles.
Addendum (12/11/12): At the "Add Your Success Story" please add these fields: 1. country (Where the submitter is now located, or using nanoHUB from. Please do not ask this as a citizenship question. We are interested in information about the geographically dispersed usage.) 2. individual title or role (We often see undergraduate student, graduate student, PhD student, professor, instructor, or other job title as contributed by the submitter.) 3. tool or resource that is the subject of this submission (We need a separate field to capture this because they do not include the information in their description.) 4. check box style question about what they use nanoHUB for: tools for their own research use, resources for tool development, their own education, resources for teaching others, connecting with other nanoHUB users/collaboration (Please let me know when you are developing this so we can refine the language of the question.) 5. image or icon next to each quote (We should enable a small thumbnail of the submitter's profile photo, and, in the absence of their photo, allow me to manually enter an appropriate science or resource-related image.)
For the "Add Your Success Story" page, I need a short URL. I need a URL that I can disseminate widely as part of an advertising campaign soliciting these success stories. I will appear in newsletters, in email message footers, on web page banner graphics, at the bottom of digital and print posters.
The content collected through the "Add Your Success Story" mechanism needs to be tagged according to the type of information being input in the fields I have described above. It would be helpful of some of this tagging were automated, but absent that, I will manually tag. The Notable Quotes content needs to be taggable by: country, role/job title, whether the organization is a school or company or government lab, the tool or resource number, and the reason or benefit of using nanoHUB.
The content collected through the "Add Your Success Story" mechanism and tagged needs to be pulled onto web pages where appropriate, such as: the profile of the contributor of the tool or resource the success story speaks about, the tool or resource page that the success story speaks about, the category of use (whether research, education, collaboration, or publication), to name a few. When work begins on this wish least, please let me know so I can collaborate on this matter from a marketing perspective.
Please note that most of the nanoHUB team could find a quote they are looking for by using the browser search to find text on the Notable Quotes page directed to a certain topic. The ability to sort the entirety of quotes is probably only useful to me. So being able to sort the Notable Quotes page is less important than the other needs described in this wish and in wishes 214 and 275. However, if the ability to sort the quotes would be available with no extra work, through the ability to tag quotes for pulling them onto other pages, then let us allow the ability to sort to be available.


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Country acts Jason Aldean and Miranda coming to Fenway
Country music concerts have been a boon for Gillette Stadium so it only makes sense that the folks at Fenway would want to get in on the action.
We're told Live Nation will announce this week that top-tier country acts Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert will play at the ballpark July 13.
Aldean's hits include "Big Green Tractor'' and "Dirt Road Anthem,'' and his chart-topping duet with Kelly Clarkson, "Don't You Wanna Stay?'' (But Aldean, inset below, may be better known at the moment for being photographed recently mackin' on a woman who is not his wife, namely "American Idol'' ex-contestant Brittany Kerr.)
Lambert (inset left), meanwhile, the 28-year-old Texan who's married to fellow country star Blake Shelton, is best known for her hits "Me and Charlie Talking,'' "Bring Me Down,'' "Famous in a Small Town,'' and "Gunpowder & Lead.''
Aldean and Lambert would be the first country acts to play at Fenway Park, which has previously played host to Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Roger Waters, Phish, Jimmy Buffett, and the Rolling Stones.
Not to be outdone, we're told Gillette will soon announce dates for Kenny Chesney (with Eric Church) shows at the stadium, as well a possible Taylor Swift tour stop at the 53,000-seat venue in Foxborough.
Conspicuously absent is any mention of the Stones, who are celebrating their 50th anniversary, and this week announced four upcoming shows – two at London's O2 Arena in November and two at Newark's Prudential Center in December. (Old friend Rich Krezwick, former president of the TD Garden, is now head of Devils Arena Entertainment, the company that manages the Prudential Center.)
Is it possible that the Rolling Stones would add a date or two at Fenway next summer? Anything's possible, we suppose. You'll recall that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, and Charlie Watts set up shop in centerfield in 2005, and left the sod in such terrible shape it had to be completely replaced.
Talking to the BBC on Monday, Richards hinted that more shows are possible.
"You know I wouldn't be surprised,'' said the guitarist. "Nobody's actually given a heads up on that, but I don't think that this band is gonna wind up all of this for four shows. I think they want to do something for the end of the year, and I think next year probably looks like it's on.''
One interesting wrinkle, the four Stones shows that have been announced are being promoted by Virgin Live, a new organization led by British business magnate Richard Branson, who was sitting in Pats owner Robert Kraft's box at Gillette a few weeks ago.


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WASHINGTON — In baseball circles, especially among pitchers, a visit to Los Angeles Angels team doctor and renowned orthopedist Dr. Lewis Yocum was often seen as a prelude to surgery and a lengthy disabled list stint.
But there were plenty of times that Yocum — who died over the weekend at 65 after battling liver cancer — recommended that a player not undergo surgery and choose rehabilitation first.
Orioles reliever Darren O'Day was one of those cases. As an Angels rookie in 2008, O'Day tore the labrum in his pitching shoulder and visited Yocum for a diagnosis and advice.
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Since 2004 we have commissioned artists to create substantial temporary artworks, trained ourselves and others in the process of commissioning public artworks through international site visits and guest lectures and successfully raised funding to these ends.
Our current project - The Big Welcome - is supported by Creative Scotland, Portobello & Craigmillar Neighbourhood Partnership and Edinburgh City Libraries


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Pluggable Directives Libraries (#395)
- provide for a framework for introducing additional directives into the system, even from different namespace
- TODO existing directives may be overridden, i.e. alternate versions will simply replace existing directives from a different library
- might require some configuration by the user for choosing the correct implementation, if multiple such replacements are available
- zero configuration effort by the user
- detection of available directives libraries is via the [genshi.libraries.directives] entry point
- available directives libraries in the system will be automatically loaded by the system
- api for programmatically adding new directives libraries (similar to the current concept of pluggable DirectiveFactory's, which will be dropped once this is stable)
- extended text based templates, see WorkInProgress/PluggableDirectivesLibraries/TextTemplates
- execution order of directives must be redefined so that directives defined by third party libraries will be executed in the correct order, and if a given directive does not impose any restrictions on its execution order, then it will be executed in document order
- this allows for adding new directives to existing directive namespaces
- this seems more natural since we are not dealing with operators here and as it is also found in common programming languages where the in-source order of statements is the normally the same order that they are executed in
- refactoring of the i18n filter into a filter module and a directives library (DONE, untested)
- refactoring of the standard directives into a base module and a directives library (DONE, tested, text template will fail since it is currently under development)
Current Development State
- currently in early alpha phase (existing test cases do not break and performance is comparable to standard genshi ~ 100..200..400 ms for rendering the trac templates incl. a site.html on my local system)
More information will be made available as soon as the initial prototype is working.
Feel free to add your wishes for this feature. Please do not remove existing wishes from other users, extend upon them.
- see #296 for a py:element directive
- see #321 for a py:comment directive
- see #104 for a proposal on CDATA output (which could be made a directive)
- working branch to develop this in a joint effort on g.e.o. directly
Example Directives Library
This example serves as a skeleton for ongoing development. It also serves as the initial documentation for the new feature.
Example setup.py
try: from setuptools import setup, Feature from setuptools.command.bdist_egg import bdist_egg except ImportError: from distutils.core import setup Feature = None bdist_egg = None setup( name = 'GenshiSampleDirectivesLibrary', version = '1.0.0proto_proto', description = 'A sample genshi directives library', long_description = \ """""", author = 'axn-software.de, Carsten Klein', author_email = 'firstname.lastname@example.com', license = 'BSD', url = 'http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/WorkInProgress/PluggableDirectivesLibraries', #download_url = 'http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/Download', classifiers = [ 'Development Status :: 2 - Prototype', 'Environment :: Web Environment', 'Intended Audience :: Developers', 'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License', 'Operating System :: OS Independent', 'Programming Language :: Python', 'Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content', 'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules', 'Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML', 'Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: XML' ], keywords = ['python.templating.engines'], packages = ['sample'], #test_suite = 'genshi.tests.suite', entry_points = """ [genshi.libraries.directives] genshi-sample = sample.directives_library:SampleDirectivesLibrary """ )
Example directives_library.py
from genshi.core import Markup, TEXT from genshi.template.base import TemplateSyntaxError, _apply_directives from genshi.template.default_directives_library import WhenDirective from genshi.template.directives import Directive, DirectivesLibrary NAMESPACE = "http://genshi.edgewall.org/directives/sample/" class SampleDirectivesLibrary(DirectivesLibrary): def __init__(self): DirectivesLibrary.__init__(self, [CommentDirective, #ElementDirective #CDATADirective ], default_namespace = NAMESPACE) # taken from ticket #321 comment directive patch class CommentDirective(Directive): """Implementation of the ``sample:comment`` template directive. This directive replaces the content of the element with the result of evaluating the value of the ``sample:comment`` attribute: >>> from genshi.template import MarkupTemplate >>> tmpl = MarkupTemplate('''<div xmlns:sample="http://genshi.edgewall.org/directives/sample"> ... <sample:comment>${2 + 2}</sample:comment> ... </div>''') >>> print tmpl.generate(bar='Bye') <div> <!--4--> </div> """ __slots__ = [] @classmethod def attach(cls, template, stream, value, namespaces, pos): if type(value) is not dict: raise TemplateSyntaxError('The comment directive can only be used ' 'as an element', template.filepath, *pos[1:]) return super(CommentDirective, cls).attach(template, stream, value, namespaces, pos) def __call__(self, stream, directives, ctxt, **vars): stream = list(stream) stream.insert(0, (TEXT, Markup("<!--"), (None, 1, 0))) stream.append((TEXT, Markup("-->"), (None, 1, 0))) return _apply_directives(stream, directives, ctxt, vars) @classmethod def get_execute_before(cls): return WhenDirective
Example template.html
<html xmlns:sample="http://genshi.edgewall.org/directives/sample"> <body> <sample:comment> ${1+1} </sample:comment> </body> </html>
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Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me here?
I am looking for some latin phrase to go on my sword.
I was thinking of using my clan's motto: "Per Mare, Per Terras", but slightly changing it to "Per Mare, Per Terras, Per Astra".
Now my question is does that say, "By Sea, By Land, By Stars" Or would it be better with "the" in "By (the) Stars"?
Or does this sound any better: "By Honour, By Truth, By Glory, This Is The Way To The Stars?" How would that be in Latin
If anyone can come up with any other suggestions, I will be most weclome to consider it.
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Q: I've heard that it's a good idea to index my foreign key columns. Is that true?
A: The simple answer is yes. However, I'd like to discuss this in more detail because people often follow this answer up with "Then why doesn't SQL Server automatically create them for me?"
First and foremost, SQL Server has never automatically created indexes on foreign keys. I remember a phase in which I seemed to be asked "When did SQL Server stop putting indexes on foreign keys?" all the time. In fact, I wrote a blog post about it ("When did SQL Server stop putting indexes on Foreign Key columns?"). That post provides good information about why you should put indexes on foreign keys, but I'll summarize it here by saying that you can reduce the cost of managing the relationship by having an index on a foreign key column(s), and you might help the performance for processing certain joins by having your foreign keys indexed.
Although you can help some joins with these indexes, I'm very glad that SQL Server doesn't require them. I think it would be truly beneficial if indexes were automatically created when the foreign key is created, but I want to be able to drop them later. For example, I might replace some of them with slightly wider indexes (i.e., indexes that have more columns) that can be used for more than just managing the foreign key relationship. So I'm glad that indexes aren't required on foreign keys. Ideally, I'd like SQL Server to give me the option to create the indexes when I create the foreign key constraint, but still allow me to drop them independently from the foreign key constraint.
Indexing basics (for me) include the following:
- Choosing a good clustering key
- Creating my primary key
- Creating my unique keys
- Creating my foreign keys, and then manually indexing my foreign keys
- Creating any other indexes needed for highly selective criteria (on which I'm often searching)
Once those steps have been performed, I can start to do workload analysis to create additional indexes.


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The Priests for Life family throughout the nation is remembering, in prayers and Masses today, the safety of our nation and of all who defend it, as well as all who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks. We pray for the consolation of their families. We also pray for the wisdom to recognize evil in every one of its many manifestations, and to oppose it with the power of good. Following are some of the links on our site that offer reflections about September 11.
The Fifth Anniversary
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What is it with liberals who leave the country and immediately start to encourage anti-American sentiment abroad? This time it's Al Gore, who talked to reporters in Sweden. The news headlines are about Gore vowing that he isn't running for President, but here's the rest of what he said:
When asked how the United States would have been different if he had become president, though, he had harsh criticism for Bush's policies.
"We would not have invaded a country that didn't attack us," he said, referring to Iraq. "We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families."
"We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said. "We would be a different country.
"Routinely torturing people"–is that enemy propaganda, or the official position of the Democratic Party? Is there still a difference? If we're routinely torturing people, then why do those who get caught go to jail? And don't Gore and other liberals who travel abroad realize how much they are damaging the United States by recycling this nonsense?
For the rest, it's the usual parallel universe of the Democratic Party. The administration is trying to "control and intimidate the news media." Sure, we've all seen how intimidated the media are. That's why they never say anything critical of the administration. It would be more accurate to say that the media have tried to control and intimidate the Bush administration.
And I like the one about "taking money from working families and giving it to the most wealthy families." Sure, I remember the surtax Congress imposed to support the rich. Just once, I'd like to see a reporter ask Gore or some other liberal what in the world he's talking about when he makes that kind of statement. (You'd think the press would do it, too, since they're so intimidated by President Bush.)
Actually, though, Al Gore is one of the few rich Americans who really is supported by taxes paid by working families, since he receives a federal pension for his service in the Senate and as Vice-President. If he really means what he says, all he has to do is refund his pension to the federal treasury. What do you think the chances are he's doing that?


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The 34-year-old left Shanghai Shenhua for Galatarasaray in the January transfer window, but his former club, Shanghai Shenhua, is adamant that he is still contracted to them
Nevertheless, the Istanbul giant has little doubt that Drogba will soon arrive at the Turk Telekom Arena.
"He might not be able to play against Antalyaspor. Because we need to get temporary permission from FIFA, and FIFA rules are such that the player should be played as quickly as possible," Arkan told Radyospor. "They will give a temporary license, followed by the permit.
"Drogba's country were knocked out of the Africa Cup of Nations. The team have now returned to Cote d'Ivoire. Afterwards, he will go to London. He will need a day or two to move his stuff. I think he'll come to Istanbul this week."
Galatasaray currently sits atop of the Turkish league table with 37 points from 20 games.


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So You Won A Bajillion Dollars In The Lottery — Now What?
Sure, only like, one in a zillion of you might need this information — but what exactly do you do when you win the mega jackpot lottery? Before you run off with your millions of dollars to fill a pool with gold coins so as to swim through it, Scrooge McDuck style, there are some very important things to consider. Why not prepare yourself for your future filthy rich state?
The ever-practical New York Times has got your back, should you ever score that magical, winning ticket. You've got to not only protect your money, but your identity and physical person when you're the newest rich kid on the block.
First of all — what do you do with the ticket? Sign the back, says the NYT, so no one else can claim it if you drop it. Immediately photocopy it and lock it in a safe, or somewhere you know it's protected.
Then it's time for a chill pill. Don't open the floodgates by calling every single person you know, including that boy you loved from first to eighth grade, to let them know your'e the richest person they know. You've been a normal person your entire life, pause a few days before you become Lady/Lord Moneybags.
The first person you should tell is a lawyer or financial planner, someone you trust that can help you along the path to riches. And before you go Tweeting about your good luck (#IWinAtLife) and calling the local news station, think twice — it might be better to stay anonymous so as to protect yourself from being bugged by people who just want you for your money. It can be easy to start giving away money to people claiming they need your help.
In some states you can form a trust to manage the money, but some will let your name appear in public records. In other states, you're actually required to show up and receive that oversized check in front of everyone.
So the big question — is it okay to go on a tiny spending spree? Just the littlest one? Yes — experts say to get it out of your system, but not go totally bonkers at the go-kart store. Everyone will notice if you install a racing track in your backyard and spend your days zooming around in your mink bathrobe, guzzling Dom Perignon.
For more tips and advice regarding taxes, lump sums and more lottery wisdom, check out the source link below. And buy me a pony if you win.
*Thanks for the tip, Howard!
What to Do After You Hit the Mega Millions Jackpot [New York Times]
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Exploration of East African Grasslands in Tanzania & Kenya
Take a safari in some of eastern Africa's most famed wildlife destinations: the Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park before heading to Kenya's Masai Mara, home to Kenya's largest predator population. Begin in Lake Manyara National Park where you can see tree-climbing lions, elephants and huge troops of baboons. Next stop is the legendary and breathtaking Ngorongoro Crater where the wildlife abounds followed by the Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti hosts the largest concentration of wildlife in the world, and is home to one of the great wonders in the world, the Great Migration. Your final visit will be in Kenya and the inspiring natural scenery of the heart of Africa's Great Plains, the Masai Mara and its unspoilt wilderness. The views across the rolling golden grasslands studded with acacia trees, rivers and forests are dazzling, the sense of space overwhelming.
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George: Adding big-name assistants shows Jerry Jones is all in to win
With salary cap near limit, Jones invests heavily in assistants
IRVING — The NFL's free-agency period doesn't begin until March 12. But Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has already had to dig deep in his thick wallet this off-season.
Unlike with its players, the NFL doesn't have a salary cap for coaching hires. Jones hasn't held back in adding seven new coaches to the Cowboys' staff, including some high-profile names that probably cost him.
Most notably, Jones hired defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin to replace the fired Rob Ryan, Chicago defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli to be the Cowboys' defensive line coach, recently fired Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley to coach the wide receivers and Rich Bisaccia to be Dallas' new special teams coordinator.
Jones is busting his coaching salary budget more so this year to, in part, compensate for what the Cowboys won't be able to spend on players in free agency because of their tight salary-cap situation. Plus, the 70-year-old Jones knows that time is neither on his side nor his aging core players who headline the roster.
In addition to Jones having to ante up to hire new coaches, he also will have to offset the money that's due to the coaches the Cowboys fired who were still under contract. Also, offensive coordinator Bill Callahan's salary could increase because of his added responsibility this off-season.
Jones recently told the Cowboys' official website that overhauling the team's coaching staff was costly and not something done simply for the sake of change.
"This was a change of commitment," Jones told DallasCowboys.com. "We had to honor the commitments we had in coaches; all of that ultimately ended up, frankly, being pretty expensive."
Bringing in higher-profile assistant coaches is also a way for Jones to show the Cowboys' fan base that he's still pushing hard to get Dallas back into the playoffs.
Jones' emphasis this off-season on boosting the coaching staff paints an even clearer picture for the future of coach Jason Garrett. He's now under even more pressure to win — and win now — or else.
The Cowboys don't release their coaching salaries, but looking at what each coach was paid at his previous stops usually provides a good gauge for his current income.
The 72-year-old Kiffin and 63-year-old Marinelli have a combined 43 years of NFL coaching experience between them and, along with Bisaccia, won a Super Bowl ring together in Tampa Bay in January 2003.
Those kinds of credentials usually yield more money.
If Kiffin, Bisaccia and Dooley had remained at their previous jobs, the three would have made at least a combined $4.1 million in 2013. Add Marinelli to those three, and the four coaches' combined 2013 salary probably would have climbed into the $5 million range.
According to a 2012 analysis by USA Today, Kiffin made more than $1.5 million in 2010 to make him the highest-paid assistant coach in college football. Kiffin recently resigned from USC so that he could return to the NFL.
Marinelli was making $2 million a year when Detroit fired him as its head coach after the Lions finished 0-16 in 2008. The Bears hired Marinelli as their defensive line coach in 2009 before making him their defensive coordinator in 2010.
Marinelli's Bears defense led the NFL last season with 44 takeaways. Now Marinelli is likely to be one of the highest-paid position coaches in the NFL.
Dooley made $2 million in 2012 and was signed through the 2016 season when Tennessee fired him Nov. 18 after going 15-21 in three seasons for the Volunteers, winning only four SEC games.
Tennessee has to pay Dooley a $5 million buyout, according to his contract that was obtained by The Dallas Morning News through an open records request. Dooley, 44, will receive the $5 million from Tennessee in equal monthly payments over the next four years, according to his contract.
The Cowboys might have caught a break on what they had to pay Dooley considering the $5 million that Tennessee still owes him.
Bisaccia agreed to a two-year deal at Auburn at a rate of $500,000 per season, according to information obtained by The News through an open records request.
Auburn officially hired Bisaccia on Jan. 3 and immediately sent him out on the road to recruit. His tenure at Auburn was so short that he never signed a contract, according to an Auburn athletic department official.
With Bisaccia having not signed a contract, there was no buyout in place that the Cowboys had to work around.
Bisaccia was a part of Auburn coach Gus Malzahn's staff for only 22 days. He said Thursday that he was "a little embarrassed" about his short stint at Auburn. Bisaccia spent the second half of January contemplating whether he should leave Auburn to join the Cowboys' coaching staff.
Bisaccia, 52, coached the San Diego Chargers' special teams in 2011 and 2012 after spending the previous nine seasons in Tampa Bay, where his wife still lives.
Bisaccia said he took the Auburn job to get him closer to his family and put him on a path that could one day lead to a college head coaching job.
Bisaccia said Garrett, however, was "persistent" in continuing to press him to take the Cowboys' special teams coordinator job.
Jones has maintained that despite a salary cap in place, he spends more money than any other NFL owner each season to give the Cowboys the best chance to succeed. This off-season has been no different.
"We've always been willing to invest resources in staff," Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said. "More is not better. Some people think more is better and some people think less is better, and it all depends on your head coach and what he is trying to accomplish.
"I have never seen at any point where we resisted not getting the very best when we have had an opportunity to do that. I wouldn't say anything has changed."
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Prime Minister David Cameron has criticised the teachers' one-day strike during an interview with the Derbyshire Times as "unnecessary and unjustified".
NUT union members took industrial action on Wednesday, March 26, forcing school closures across Derbyshire and the country over claims of excessive workloads and planned changes to pay and pensions.
Teachers are concerned about Government plans to introduce performance-related pay and changes to pensions which would mean more input from salaries and less opportunity for early retirement.
Mr Cameron, of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government, said: "I think teachers are being treated fairly and there is no justification for the strike.
"A teaching union asked for talks and then went ahead with a strike.
"But less than a quarter of teachers went ahead with it.
"It was unnecessary and unjustified and disrupted parents' lives.
"The introduction of performance-related pay will mean teachers who teach well will get paid more."
NUT members have also complained about unmanageable working conditions, excessively long hours and plans for a new overly-bureaucratic structure.
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Secondhand Smoke Tied to Teens' Hearing Loss
Teens who are exposed to secondhand smoke may be at a higher risk of hearing loss, researchers have found.
The findings, which one expert called "surprising," can't prove that secondhand smoke causes hearing loss. But the link is just one more reason to make sure that non-smokers, especially kids, are protected from cigarette smoke, researchers said.
"We need to increase focus on this population at risk (for hearing loss) during adolescence who now have risk factors such as noise factors or secondhand smoke," said Dr. Anil Lalwani, who worked on the study.
Secondhand smoke has been tied to a range of health problems in kids, from respiratory infections to behavioral problems, although there is still no ironclad proof that smoke is at the root of all of these problems.
Lalwani and his colleagues from New York University Langone Medical Center thought tobacco smoke might have an effect on the blood flow in kids' inner ear, which is important for hearing.
They analyzed data from a U.S. national health survey involving about 1,500 adolescents age 12 to 19. All of those kids had hearing tests in both ears to see if they had any trouble picking up on sounds at different pitches. Researchers also tested their blood for levels of cotinine -- which forms when the nicotine from cigarette smoke breaks down.
A very high level of cotinine suggests that a teen is a smoker, while a lower level means that kid is probably exposed to secondhand smoke.
Teens whose cotinine levels told researchers they spent a lot of time around smokers were more likely to have hearing loss at the lower frequencies of human speech than those without exposure to cigarette smoke.
About 12 percent of the exposed kids had mild to severe hearing loss in one ear, compared to less than eight percent of kids without smoke exposure.
The findings, published in Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head & Neck Surgery, also hinted that the same may be true for high-pitch sounds, although statistical tests showed that difference might have been due to chance.
"It's kind of surprising," said Dr. Joseph DiFranza, who has studied secondhand smoke at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worchester.
"We already knew that passive smoking is bad for children," DiFranza, who wasn't involved in the new research, told Reuters Health. "This just piles on another reason" to make sure kids aren't exposed to secondhand smoke.
While other studies haven't looked for a link between secondhand smoke and hearing loss in kids, Lalwani said adults who smoke are known to be at higher risk of hearing loss themselves.
He said it will be interesting going forward to see if hearing loss in kids exposed to secondhand smoke could also explain some of the other problems seen in these kids, such as behavioral issues. For example, Lalwani said, kids who can't hear a teacher's instructions are more likely to be labeled as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.
He added that doctors should be on the lookout for hearing problems in teens with secondhand smoke exposure. That's especially important because kids in this study with hearing loss usually didn't know they had a problem -- but lack of hearing could be affecting their learning and speech skills, the researchers said.
Still, "the degree of hearing loss that they found in the study wasn't enough to say all kids should be tested for it because their parents smoke," said DiFranza.
The researchers said that it's hard to tease out the effect of secondhand smoke exposure during childhood and adolescence from when kids were developing in the womb. But the new study suggests that "it's very toxic to the auditory system," Lalwani told Reuters Health.
"We need to alter our public policies to protect the innocent bystanders who would otherwise be exposed to smoke," he added.
Luca Cucullo, of Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, told Reuters Health in an email that "the need for prevention and health education at home as well (as) at school is the main take home message."


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Saving Nemo: Transforming the marine aquarium Industry
In the 1970s, new technologies such as canister filters and artificial sea salt finally allowed hobbyists to keep live reef fish caught from the ocean.
Forty nations supply some 2000 reef fish and 650 invertebrate species to a host of countries – primarily the United States, Japan and Western Europe.
In many places high-value ornamental fish like angelfish and clown triggerfish are conspicuously absent.
"Last night we shipped out thousands of fish in boxes" reveals an operator.
"Reef fish are not expendable décor. They have lives and important ecological roles to play in coral reefs," explains veteran aquarist Joseph Uy.
However, it must be vigilantly managed to spare reefs additional damage and to minimize post-harvest mortality rates.
Almost all wild-caught marine fish are taken from coral reefs. A 2004 study by the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute found that only 1% of the country's coral reefs were in excellent condition," reveals WWF-Philippines Vice-chair and CEO Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan.
"The world's marine habitats continue to be assailed by climate change, pollution and unsustainable fishing. Obviously, poor fish and invertebrate harvest practices do little for conservation.
Certified Philippine tank-raised seahorses are good alternatives and under a new ruling, they might soon be available for local sales and export to international markets.


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Oral Roberts at Pacific
Tipoff: 7 p.m., Spanos Center
Records: Golden Eagles 1-1, Tigers 1-1
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Skinny: This is a return game from the 2011 ESPN BracketBuster series that saw Oral Roberts prevail 79-63 at Mabee Center. ...Pacific will be seeking its second win of the season after coming up short 66-61 at Fresno State on Friday night. ...The Golden Eagles were 27-7 last season and lost to Nevada in the first round of the NIT, but lost three starters from that squad. ...Oral Roberts has shifted from the Summit League to the Southland Conference this season and was the preseason coaches' pick to win the conference in 2012-13. ... Oral Roberts head coach Scott Sutton's top three returnees are Warren Niles, Damen Bell-Holter and Steven Roundtree, with Niles leading the team in scoring (24 points per game). ...Senior point guard Lorenzo McCloud (13.5) leads Pacific and said having just two days between games can be a positive after a tough loss: "It'll be good for us to get back out there and figure out what we can do better."...It'll be the beginning of a busy week for Pacific as it will head to Anaheim for the DirecTV Classic beginning with a matchup against Xavier at 11 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
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