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Saturday, July 28, 2012
The Lake District, UK ? A Great Family Holiday Destination
The Lake District makes a wonderful holiday destination, especially if you are going on vacation with children. From lush green rolling hills to deep blue lakes, tiny towns and villages, the Lake District is so picturesque it should be on everyone?s bucket list!
The beautiful scenery of the Lake District has inspired and many artists and writers, including Beatrix Potter and William Wordsworth. You can visit their charming former homes to learn more about their work and their lives. ?A great day out if your kids have read the tales of Peter Rabbit or are learning about Wordsworth?s poems at school.
The Lake District is a wonderful place for getting out in the fresh air and going walking in the mountains as a family. There are walks for all ages and abilities, just pick up a guide from a local tourist office before you set off.
Daredevil kids will love the chance to try out water sports like kayaking, waterskiing and wakeboarding or try out mountain biking or rock climbing. A trip on a steamer boat on Windermere is a particularly lovely way to spend the afternoon and a great way to relax.
There are countless local foods to try in the Lakes, including many that will satisfy even the sweetest of sweet tooth, like gingerbread from Grasmere, sticky toffee pudding from Cartmel and the famous walking treat Kendal mint cake.
If mom fancies a bit of retail therapy there are lovely towns, like Keswick and Ambleside that are clustered with quaint and individual shops. A great place to pick up a treat for yourself or a gift for a loved one back home!
Visit www.sykescottages.co.uk/lake-district-holiday-cottages for more information on fantastic UK holiday cottages in the Lake District.
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*Guest post by Amanda A
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Friday, July 27, 2012
PFT: Suh sued by woman after December crash
APEvery new coach wants to put his own stamp on a team.
Mike Mularkey apparently wants to imprint his with a sledge hammer.
The Jaguars coach told Tania Ganguli of the Florida Times-Union he planned to fine players $10,000 if they talk about injuries to the media.
Mularkey delivered that news in last night?s team meeting.
?They saw a lot of numbers last night,? Mularkey said. ?One of them, it was up there more than once, was about speaking about injuries. [Head trainer]?Mike Ryan talked about it, I had it up there more than once. Coordinators were told prior to that meeting every two weeks, two to three weeks I want you to stand in front of that room and tell them we?re not going to talk about injuries.
?Even if mom says, ?How are you feeling?? If you tell you mom, go call coach Mularkey. I?m going overboard.?
Mularkey wasn?t totally serious about the fines for talking to parents, but apparently to everyone else.
?Anything I know about a guy, anything I know is hurting on him, any comment he makes will play into how they attack a team or a position,? Mularkey said. ?I just don?t think it?s anybody else?s business. ? If I feel like it?s going to jeopardize us or compromise us, I will not talk about specific injuries. Right now we?re really not in a position where I don?t feel free to talk about them because I feel pretty good about our team right now. But I will be the only voice.?
Listen, that?s fine to play tough guy. The Jaguars could use a little order (as long as it doesn?t come with Jack Del Rio?s ax).
But maybe, just maybe, they?d be better off getting their quarterback to quit looking so skittish in the pocket, or having Justin Blackmon call a cab, or trying to get their best player into camp on time.
Call me crazy, but I think any of those things might be more important to the Jaguars improving more so than making sure somebody doesn?t tell Vito Stellino their ankle hurts.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/26/ndamukong-sued/related
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Risk management a hot topic at Olympics ? and at business schools ...
Posted on 26 July 2012.
Be it safeguarding athletes and attendees from a terrorist attack, the 2012 Olympics, opening Friday, share something in common with rogue traders and drought ? risk, wrote The Globe and Mail on Thursday, July 26.
Whether it is staging a safe sporting spectacle, protecting the financial health of a company or insuring against crop loss, managing risk is a hot topic at business schools. New government regulations after the 2008 financial crisis and a recent spate of big-bank scandals (J.P. Morgan and Barclays among them) have only intensified demand for those able to identify threats and limit the chance of bad things happening.
Employers want B-school graduates with high-end math skills to apply risk management tools, such as derivatives, as well as the capacity to look beyond the numbers at qualitative ?what if? scenarios that could disrupt company operations.
In response, some schools are revamping their curriculum.
York University?s Schulich School of Business has modified its Master of Finance to introduce a specialization in financial risk management this fall.
?The intention of the Master of Finance introduced three years ago was to produce students in investment banking, but after the 2008 financial crisis the investment banking business is declining,? says Melanie Cao, a professor of financial engineering and co-ordinator of the new specialization.
For the 12-month program, students who choose the financial risk specialization will study a variety of topics including derivative securities and enterprise risk management.
?There is a demand for this cohort,? says Prof. Cao, citing industry requests for students trained in risk management as it applies to markets, day-to-day operations and other issues. ?I am very hopeful that students with this [new] specialization will have an easier time getting a job.?
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The Olympics and bare feet: What have we learned?
ScienceDaily (July 27, 2012) ? Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila made history when he earned a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. His speed and agility won him the gold, but it was barefoot running that made him a legend.
When the shoes Bikila was given for the race didn't fit comfortably, he ditched them for his bare feet. After all, that's the way he had trained for the Olympics in his homeland.
Racing shoeless led to success for Bikila, and now, more than 50 years later, runners are continuing to take barefoot strides. Several Olympic runners have followed Bikila and nationally the trend has exploded over the past decade. There's even a national association dedicated to barefoot running. However, scientists are stuck on whether it either prevents or increases injuries.
"Bikila may have been on to something," said Carey Rothschild, an instructor of physical therapy at the University of Central Florida in Orlando who specializes in orthopedic sports injuries. "The research is really not conclusive on whether one approach is better than the other. But what is clear is that it's really a matter of developing a good running form and sticking to it, not suddenly changing it."
Rothschild, a 12-year runner who has completed the Boston Marathon three times, reviewed research and found injuries happened with or without shoes. So she conducted a survey with the help of the Track Shack in Orlando to get to the bottom of the controversy.
What she found was striking.
Most people said they turned to barefoot running in the hopes of improving performance and reducing injuries. Ironically, those who said they never tried it avoided it for fear it would cause injuries and slow their times.
However, research shows that there are risks to running no matter what someone puts on his or her feet.
Barefoot runners tend to land on their mid or forefoot as opposed to the heel, which good athletic shoes try to cushion.
Some studies suggest that barefoot running causes a higher level of stress fractures on the front part of the foot and increased soreness in the calves. But runners who wear athletic shoes can also suffer everything from knee injuries to hip problems, related to repeated stress from impact forces at the heel.
"There is no perfect recipe," said Rothschild, a resident of Winter Park.
In a paper publishing next month in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, Rothschild reviews the research and provides a guide for those who want to explore barefoot running as a way to train for marathons. It's a 10-12 week program that slowly eases people who run in shoes onto their bare feet.
She suggests getting a thorough physical examination and biomechanical assessment from a physical therapist or other trained professional so that strength and flexibility deficits can be identified and addressed first. That should be done before gradually transitioning to bare feet.
"The bottom line is that when a runner goes from shoes to no shoes, their body may not automatically change its gait," Rothschild said. "But there are ways to help make that transition smoother and lower the risk of injuries."
The researcher concludes that barefoot running in and of itself is neither good nor bad. As with running in shoes, proper training and conditioning are essential.
However, Rothschild does offer a warning.
Anyone with lower extremity or deformity or with a disease that creates a lack of sensation on the feet should probably avoid barefoot running because they can't necessarily feel injuries resulting from running on hard surfaces.
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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120727102436.htm
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Windows Phone 8 SDK leaks show quiet upgrades to backup, media and the kitchen sink
The Windows Phone 8 SDK has escaped to the wild, and some sifting through the device emulator has dug up elements that Microsoft either skipped or only touched on lightly during the big unveiling in June. The most important addition may be the one customers see the least: backup. A WP7.hu search has the new OS replicating apps, settings and SMS messages in the cloud to prevent disaster, and that new SD card support will let WP8 owners shuffle photos from internal storage to the removable kind for safekeeping. There's also more work on Internet Explorer than we saw before, with MobileTechWorld noticing that DataSense provides an option for Opera-like remote compression to save that precious cellular bandwidth.
Media fans might have the most to gain. If we go by The Verge, both the Music/Video and Xbox hubs are getting fresh coats of paint -- both to integrate new ventures like Xbox Music as well as to jive more closely with the SmartGlass visual theme. Shutterbugs will like the long-awaited options to crop and rotate their work, pick multiple photos, and unify third-party camera apps under a Lenses concept. There's even more clever features in store, such as a Maps update that finds nearby WiFi hotspots, so head on over to the sources to get a full sense of where Microsoft will be going.
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Austrian admits making up story to get rid of snake
VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian applauded for capturing a 2.3-metre (7.5-foot) boa constrictor he said he discovered on a riverbank has admitted he made up the story to get rid of a pet snake he found too big to handle, an animal rescue group said on Thursday.
"It turns out he could not get to grips with the snake and wanted to get rid of it this way," said Susanne Hemetsberger, head of the Austrian Animal Protection Association. The owner handed over the reptile to an animal shelter.
She said in hindsight the tale originally told by the Salzburg man, who has not been identified, that he had happened upon and bagged the 7-kg (15.5-pound) boa last week, seemed suspicious.
"No passer-by who isn't familiar with snakes would ever grab a boa constrictor. On the contrary, they would scream, run away and call the police," she said.
The man has two other two-meter snakes that he wants to give away as well, Hemetsberger said.
"The snake owner dished up one lie after another and I hope he gets the proper punishment for this. He can't just release a snake and then pose as its finder," she said, calling for curbs on the sale of exotic pets that inexperienced owners often find overwhelming.
(Reporting by Michael Shields; editing by Andrew Roche)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/austrian-admits-making-story-rid-snake-104155018.html
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