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Wallow Lake
By Meiznke BRONZE, Calgary, Other
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Meiznke BRONZE, Calgary, Other
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - Albus Dumbledore
You could always hear Grandpa's truck before you could see it. I don't remember a time when I didn't associate broken mufflers and rattling exhaust pipes with my grandfather, and on this particular day there was no exception.
Sitting on my front steps, my dad's old green rain jacket bundled tightly around me, I waited in the dawn light for the headlights of his pickup to turn around the corner. Sure enough, his arrival first came with a low rumble, hoarse and raw against the silence of our suburban street.
He pulled into our driveway and cut the engine. Spotting me on the steps he waved and smiled. I smiled back and heaved the backpack containing our lunch onto my shoulder. My mom had dropped it in my arms earlier that morning while eyeing me up and down, taking in my uncombed hair and sleep not yet swept from my eyes. "Try not to think about him," she had said. And so, I thought of him.
Now I climbed into the truck and plopped the bag in between my grandfather and myself in the middle of the front seat.
"Provisions," I said.
"Your mother can't help cooking even on the smallest occasions."
I laughed, longer than necessary.
Grandpa looked at me. I looked back at him, knowing that any attempts from this point forward to hide how I was truly feeling were lost. Nobody could fake anything with my grandfather.
"Want to talk about it?"
"No," I confessed.
"Okay," and then he started the truck and backed out of the driveway.
The drive to Wallow Lake was two hours. Grandpa mostly talked and I listened. He talked about the new neighbours that moved in across the street from him and their especially loud German Shepherd. He talked about his friend who he goes to coffee with every Wednesday and how he recently won a lifetime supply of toilet paper at the local grocery store. He talked about my mother and how when she was my age she decided to learn the violin and was exceptionally bad at it. He kept up the one sided conversation effortlessly the entire drive and not once did he comment on my silence or act any differently because of it, and for that I was grateful.
We arrived at Wallow Lake at 8:00, "The best time for fishing," my grandfather said. Wallow Lake was surrounded by a handful of homes, shops, diners and a motel with a neon sign that had burnt out years ago. The town of Wallow's economy relied solely on the lake and for that reason, most of the shops sold bait and fishing gear and the restaurants advertised their unique fish soup specials.
I took this all in with a pleasant familiarity and for a few rare moments felt completely free of him. Then I remembered.
Grandpa turned down the side road that led to the dock and parked the truck in a shallow ditch covered by shade from the tall pine trees. We got out of the truck and headed towards the dock; backpack, fishing rods, and bait all in tow. We reached the dock and soon the soft crunch of gravel translated into the faint hollow thumps of our feet on rotting wood.
We walked to the end of the dock and set down our equipment. It was a clear day, and a soft breeze skimmed the surface of the lake. Grandpa handed me a rod and baited it for me, then baited his own. Soon we had both cast our lines out on to the lake. Grandpa got his far and out on his first try, but it took me 3 times before I was satisfied.
Grandpa didn't say anything, both of us silent as we leant on the rail of the dock; arms bent at the elbows, hands grasping the cool metal of the reel. There is something about the stillness of an entire lake that makes you go quiet. The water sweeps out on all sides, shimmering in the brilliant light. Wisps of reflection paint themselves on the glossy surface, the colours seeming to be carried out by the soft ripples, lapping against the side of the dock. Nothing needs to be said when you first see it, and we said nothing. We stood; arms bent, and beheld it in silence.
Time leisurely drifted by with neither of us getting a bite. I wasn't troubled by this but more so by how the silence demanded honesty. Here on the lake there was no escaping the blunt forcefulness of your own thoughts, and as I looked upon the water, the slight undulations giving it a quivering appearance I finally spoke to my grandfather,
"It's over," I started. "It just… ended."
My grandfather didn't say anything, but listened, waiting for me to finish.
"I spent a long time just going over who's fault it was, who said what, what I did wrong, what he did wrong. But I just realized now that it doesn't matter. That it's over and done, and will not be again."
The sun rose higher in the sky and the lake lay restlessly.
My grandfather didn't speak and the air felt more dampening than just moments before. I thought maybe I hadn't even spoken at all in the first place. I turned to look at my grandfather.
His brow was slightly creased, and his pale blue eyes peered behind his glasses calmly. He breathed in like he was about to say something then stopped as though he was trying to figure it out in his head first. I knew then that he had heard me and I waited.
"I knew a man once," he said finally, pausing as he usually does when he's about to begin a long story, "He was young and trusting, and captive to life's…iridescent light. As most people are at that age, always caught up in anything shiny.
"Well, there he was, young, careless, impulsive; everything a man is until one day he isn't. Well, it was on this one day when he met a young woman. He was at Union Station, Chicago, after just saying goodbye to his friends who were leaving for the holidays. He was on his way out the door when he saw her. Standing on the opposite side of the platform in a white summer dress, hair glowing in the slanting light from above. Her face was turned in the direction of an oncoming train, and he remembers to this day the sad look she had on that platform. She stood there elegantly but in a lost way, as though she was uncertain as to where that train was taking her. He stopped then, in the middle of the platform, just staring at her and realizing with a growing certainty that this was the woman whom he was going to marry."
Grandpa spoke with a steadiness as though he was just relaying facts but in his words there was a hint of tenderness, and as he continued I realized that I had heard this story before a long time ago.
"The train pulled into the station then, and she made her way slowly to the nearest set of train doors. People came streaming off of the train past her and she looked bewildered for a moment at this sudden movement. She glanced over her shoulder once sweepingly; searchingly, and then stepped up on to the first step leading to the train compartments. He called to her then and ran up to her feet. She looked down at him quizzically but it was too late for him to turn around, he was already in those few seconds, emotionally invested in her. 'Don't get on that train,' he said. 'I know you don't want to. Don't. Just don't get on it,' he told her this ardently and with that young passion. And she looked down at him and cocked her head to the side and fixed her eyes on him squarely. She smiled then. 'Why I think you're right,' she said, and took the hand he offered to help her off the train.
"And so… That was the beginning of their great love. He learned later that he was the one that stopped her from getting on the train that would have taken her to a job she didn't want and away from the education that she did. They loved each other generously, and married within a year of their first meeting. They grew up together, had children together, and watched as their children grew and had children of their own."
He turned his gaze from the gleaming water and glanced at me.
"I'm having a hard time believing that this is your friend we're talking about here grandpa."
We both laughed, and he nodded undeniably. Our laughter floated out on to the water and seemed to soften the edges of everything before us.
"I guess what I'm trying to say is, that I loved your grandmother very much, and I never thought that we could ever be separated. Throughout the time we were together I was so lost in our love but so certain that nothing would ever come between us. I couldn't imagine anything at all that could corrupt that. But then…She was gone. And it ended. It just… ended." He finished with a small but heavy sigh barely audible as a slight breeze began to whisk the water and corrugate the surface.
We were silent for a moment as both of our thoughts were in the same place.
"See, but that's the thing," he continued in that low mahogany voice my grandfather has, "Nothing lasts. There is always and most certainly an ending. And that's just the way life is…we find something good and then we lose it. Then we go looking again, if we can, and find something good again."
Every word he spoke resonated with the raw honesty one gets when they've reached into that cavernous space, where senses bump right against your bare bones.
Then, suddenly, I was with him again. On one of our better days. And we held hands and laughed at something outrageously hilarious. And the sun shone. And there was that air of fondness that was so sweetly simple.
I let myself wallow in this delicate memory just for an instant, then, with a certain finality, let it fall with the rest; a pile of withered leaves. Dead, but naturally.
The wind was picking up now. It felt fresh and clean against my skin. Still leaning against the dock, hands on the reel, I felt the first tug on my line.
Tentative at first, the fish nibbled at the bait. Then abruptly, tugging harder, it moved swiftly through the water carrying my line farther out into the lake. I kept a firm grasp on the reel, trying to keep steady against the wild pulls of the fish. Then in one final flurry the fish broke free, and my line lay still.
I looked onward at the dark glossy surface of the lake, knowing that somewhere below the fish swam, still searching through the hazy waters.
"Don't worry," Grandpa said, "Something good will come."
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Rendszerezése
A fajt Frank Chapman amerikai ornitológus írta le 1926-ban, a Stigmatura budytoides alfajaként, Stigmatura budytoides napensis néven.

Alfajai
Stigmatura napensis bahiae Chapman, 1926 vagy Stigmatura bahiae
Stigmatura napensis napensis Chapman, 1926

Előfordulása
Dél-Amerikában a Amazonas folyó szigetein, Brazília, Ecuador, Kolumbia, Peru és Venezuela területén honos. Természetes élőhelyei a szubtrópusi és trópusi száraz és nedves cserjések, valamint folyók, vizes élőhelyek. Állandó nem vonuló faj.

Megjelenése
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Életmódja
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Természetvédelmi helyzete
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Venezuela madarai
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Forget hyped up US television shows! Because our very own turtle man, Dr Darren Fielder and the Redleaf Environmental team of specialists recently undertook aquatic clearances for a Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) bridge construction project on the Mary River at Conondale in South East Queensland. The RoadTek crew was very impressed with our ability to capture freshwater turtles as part of necessary environmental clearances prior to placing large rock platforms in the Mary River.
We were particularly targeting the Endangered Mary River Turtle (Elusor macrurus) and the White-Throated Snapping Turtle (Elseya albagula) which are threatened species in the Mary River. We also undertook platypus clearances using a flexible cable camera looking for burrows in the river bank. The project is part of the repairs to flood-damaged road infrastructure across Queensland and was a requirement of the Redleaf Environmental (2013) Species Management Program for Grigor Bridge crossing on the Mary River at Conondale.
While snorkelling for turtles, we saw two majestic Endangered Mary River Cod as they hung about large snags in the river. There are not many of these guys left and the locals are proud protectors of these fish ensuring everyone knows to throw them back in the river if you happen to land one on your line. We caught 12 species of fish during the clearance works which indicates that the Mary River is in good ecological condition at Conondale.
At Redleaf, we love being in the field and we are excited to get back out to the river to help TMR with the rest of the bridge construction and demolition of the old bridge at Conondale over the coming months. It is great to see that TMR was able to demonstrate its duty of care and protect these amazing aquatic animals.
The Grigor Bridge project is being delivered under Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements, a joint federal and state initiative.


It's strange to think about - I'm offering a largely free service that is quite involved, putting in at least an average of an hour a day fielding homework submissions, and then more creating bits of content here and there - I'd say my monthly investment is at least 40 hours, if not more. That said, my patreon campaign is at a little over $800 USD per month after fees, which is totally unexpected. I started it in March 2015, and I didn't really expect to make all that much, since I didn't have much to offer in the way of rewards. Turns out that for the most part, if you put in the work doing something valuable, people are willing to ensure that you keep doing it.
Now, I do take breaks. It started off when I took the month of August off, because things at work got rough during the first half of the month, and I was heading back home on vacation during the second half. Then in December, my landlord asked me to look for a new place to live, and I suddenly had a lot of stress on my shoulders.
I won't get too much into that enormous, frustrating, infuriating mess, but I will summarize it. She moved back into the other bedroom, where she'd been living when I first moved in (it was a 2 bedroom condo), she changed her mind and had me sign another lease which she then tried to break within a week upon changing her mind AGAIN. Of course, I had the legal power in this situation, so I agreed to move out but would do so on my own time, once I'd found a decent apartment rather than jumping into the first barn I saw. Once I'd put down another deposit, she changed her mind once again and asked me to stay (realizing that I was about as good a tenant as she'd hope to find and that the rent I was paying was helping her make ends meet). Of course, I was done with that garbage. I'm fairly certain she was becoming more and more unhinged (at one point the police smashed down our apartment door to respond to a drunken call to 911 she'd made. Part of me was concerned for her well-being, but at this point I was as worried for my own.
And that brings us to the next break I took, as I moved out in March (to a fantastic 1 bedroom apartment). At this point, I've pretty much made it a regular thing - two months on, one month off. And now I'm on the eve of another month off.
Being the workaholic that I am, I never really take those months off in the true sense. I merely limit homework submissions to my patreon supporters, who pledge at the very least $1/month, which reduces the number of homework submissions from 150-200 per month to about 40-50. So far I haven't had much trouble despite Patreon's infuriatingly easily abused system, and have only had one person pledge on such a month to receive a critique, but not follow through with it. I've had declined charges and whatnot, but generally those individuals haven't received anything significant for it. This one person however bugged me inecessantly with questions and then on March 30th, cancelled his pledge instead of paying the measely $3 he owed me. Man, I just don't understand some people.
Anyway, Drawabox is doing great. The subreddit /r/ArtFundamentals, which is obviously still a major part of the project, now has over 23,000 subscribers, and the website receives 1000-1500 unique users per day. Last April, I uploaded a flyer-type thing to imgur (a blatant advertisement, really) and it seriously blew up - 15000 points, generated loads of traffic and made me something like $100 in ad revenue in just two days. I barely ever even make that much in a month. I tried to replicate that with another flyer later on, but it didn't work out nearly as well, garnered maybe 500 points and never really took off (though 500's still pretty decent).
More recently in terms of marketing I've tried to take a different angle - I made a little comic called "Uncomfortable's Unsolicited Advice" that seems to have been reasonably well received by my current audience. I threw it up on imgur and it didn't do particularly well, but this is more of a long-con. I hope to make more every now and then, and every time I do I'll upload the whole growing set. At the very least, it's a nice introduction to comic-making, and I'm finding crisp lineart to be a very awkward and difficult, yet fulfilling pursuit.
Anyway, so what else do I do? Well, I am still working on that text-based game I've been building and rebuilding god knows how many times at this point. Anathema Online, Legend, Age of Avarice... all the same concept, and now my working title is very poetic - textgame2. At this point it's not as much a text game as its previous incarnations. The others all had their graphical elements - dynamic avatars, visual maps, floorplans, item art, etc. - but this one certainly takes the cake in terms of being way too ambitious. I'll surely abandon it, and it's a little absurd that I'm still technically working on the same branch of the project as I was over a year ago. Anyway, this one's got an actual world that your character can walk around in. You know, like a REAL video game. Absurd.
I started off trying to build it using threejs, figuring a 3D engine would offer me the most flexibility. Wasted a lot of time on that, then switched to phaser with an isometric plugin, and hand-painted a bunch of isometric tiles. It's actually in a surprising state right now - nothing playable of course, but I've got an environment that a character can walk around in (as well as a simple character with 8-directional walk cycles, and a rather neat system that allows me to colour their clothing dynamically). I recently more or less (actually more less than more, there's still some things to iron out) finished off what I call my "caves" system, which took a world where only one tile could exist at any given x,y coordinate and changed it so you could have a tile directly below another one - ultimately allowing me to build caves or underground tunnels. While all of this is now possible, I only intend to use it to create little insets that will eventually link off to a completely separate model of the cave itself, rather than having everything exist in the same space. A lot of work for such a petty feature.
All of this world business has been created specifically through the development of a tool that allows me to build the world in 32x32 sections. There's not a whole lot to it - just being able to place tiles, place props (like trees) and mess with the topography. One interesting thing I threw in there was the ability to plant a seed and have it grow into a forest procedurally - largely to help me avoid putting down loads of trees manually. When I do it by hand, they rarely look natural.
Of course, then there's the art I've been doing. I did a fair bit for work (though not nearly as much as I'd hope - at this point it's become a bit of a joke that I'm a concept artist at all, and not a professional level designer or programmer or whatever else). Still, while I can't share any of the work I did profesionally just yet, I hope to do so in the coming months.
Anyway, that's my massive dump. I'll try to update more frequently, and hopefully I'll avoid writing novellas in the future.


Should have an overall of 5+ years of IT experience.
Have proven track record with Data centres - the working, security, migration, design, etc.
Full working knowledge of TOGAF would be a plus.
Should be CISCO certified / CCNA / CCNP.
Experience with security regulatory frameworks in Banking / IT is a plus.


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Q: how to change tablayout selected text color in custom tablayout in Kotlin
NewPaymentActivity

class NewPaymentActivity : AppCompatActivity(),SummaryFragment.OnFragmentInteractionListener{

    override fun onFragmentInteraction(uri: Uri) {
        TODO("not implemented") //To change body of created functions use File | Settings | File Templates.
    }

    internal lateinit var viewpageradapter: ViewPagerAdapter //Declare PagerAdapter

    private var tabLayout: TabLayout? = null
    var viewPager: ViewPager? = null
    var toolbar: Toolbar? = null

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_new_payment)
        viewpageradapter= ViewPagerAdapter(supportFragmentManager)

        viewPager = findViewById(R.id.viewPager) as ViewPager
        setupViewPager(viewPager!!)

        tabLayout = findViewById(R.id.tab_layout) as TabLayout
        tabLayout!!.setupWithViewPager(viewPager)

      tabLayout!!.setSelectedTabIndicatorColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.main));

        val headerView = (getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE) as LayoutInflater)
                .inflate(R.layout.custom_tabs_for_payments, null, false)

        val receiptDetails = headerView.findViewById(R.id.tb_receipt_details) as TextView
        val paymentDetails = headerView.findViewById(R.id.tb_payment_details) as TextView
        val invoiceDetails = headerView.findViewById(R.id.tb_invoice_details) as TextView
        val summary = headerView.findViewById(R.id.tb_summary) as TextView

        tabLayout!!.getTabAt(0)!!.setCustomView(receiptDetails)
        tabLayout!!.getTabAt(1)!!.setCustomView(paymentDetails)
        tabLayout!!.getTabAt(2)!!.setCustomView(invoiceDetails)
        tabLayout!!.getTabAt(3)!!.setCustomView(summary)

    }

    private fun setupViewPager(viewPager: ViewPager) {

        val adapter = ViewPagerAdapter(supportFragmentManager)
        adapter.addFragment(ReceiptDetailsFragment(), "Receipt Details")
        adapter.addFragment(PaymentDetailsFragment(), "Payment Details")
        adapter.addFragment(InvoiceDetailsFragment(), "Invoice Details")
        adapter.addFragment(SummaryFragment(), "Summary")
        viewPager.adapter = adapter

    }

    internal inner class ViewPagerAdapter(manager: FragmentManager) : FragmentPagerAdapter(manager) {

        private val mFragmentList = ArrayList<Fragment>()
        private val mFragmentTitleList = ArrayList<String>()

        override fun getItem(position: Int): Fragment {
            return mFragmentList[position]
        }

        override fun getCount(): Int {
            return mFragmentList.size
        }

        fun addFragment(fragment: Fragment, title: String) {
            mFragmentList.add(fragment)
            mFragmentTitleList.add(title)
        }

        override fun getPageTitle(position: Int): CharSequence {
            return mFragmentTitleList[position]
        }

    }
}

custom_tabs_for_payment.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="top"
    android:layout_margin="@dimen/dimen_6dp"
    android:background="@color/row_gray"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tb_receipt_details"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"

        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="@drawable/left_tab"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/dimen_10dp"
        android:paddingStart="@dimen/dimen_6dp"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/dimen_10dp"
        android:text="Receip tDetails"

        android:textColor="@color/main"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_dimen_8sp" />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tb_payment_details"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@drawable/first_middle_tab"
        android:layout_weight="1"

        android:gravity="center"
        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/dimen_10dp"
        android:paddingStart="@dimen/dimen_6dp"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/dimen_10dp"
        android:text="Payment Details"

        android:textColor="@color/main"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_dimen_8sp" />
    <TextView

        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:id="@+id/tb_invoice_details"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="@drawable/second_middle_tab"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/dimen_10dp"
        android:paddingStart="@dimen/dimen_6dp"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/dimen_10dp"
        android:text="Invoice Details"

        android:textColor="@color/main"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_dimen_8sp" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tb_summary"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"

        android:background="@drawable/right_tab"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/dimen_10dp"
        android:paddingRight="@dimen/dimen_6dp"
        android:paddingStart="@dimen/dimen_6dp"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/dimen_10dp"
        android:text="Summary"
        android:textColor="@color/main"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_dimen_8sp" />
</LinearLayout>

I need to change my current tab layout text views according to selections.There is a way to chnage the selected tab color but I need to access custom view and chnage the text colors and text background .Below I have added current screen.I'm new to Kotlin.Thanks in advanced.

A: You can use selector color for your text view like this

tab_text_color.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:color="@color/text_selected" android:state_selected="true" /> // selected color
    <item android:color="#ababab" /> // default color
</selector>

and then set to your textview
<TextView
        android:id="@+id/tb_receipt_details"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        ...
        android:textColor="@color/tab_text_color"/>

A:     tabLayout!!.addOnTabSelectedListener(object : TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener {

                override fun onTabSelected(tab: TabLayout.Tab?) {
  receiptDetails.setTextColor(resources.getColor(R.color.white))
                    val drawable = receiptDetails.getBackground() as GradientDrawable
                    drawable.setColor(resources.getColor(R.color.received_payments))
     }
                override fun onTabUnselected(tab:TabLayout.Tab?){
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Health bosses say 'new model of care' for eastern Devon will address current failings
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Community hospital beds under threat in Sidmouth, Exmouth, Seaton, Whipton and Tiverton
Health bosses have argued their plans for a 'new model of care' will address current failings identified in a major independent report.
A public consultation is underway on proposals from the NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group's (CCG) – which would see the loss of 72 community hospital beds across eastern Devon.
Health bosses argue their 'case for change' will tackle the increasing strain being put on hospitals that is highlighted in the annual State of Care report from the independent regulator Care Quality Commission (CGC).
The CQC findings highlight an increase in the number of people waiting to be discharged from hospital and elderly or frail patients being treated in accident and emergency departments (A&E) due – in part - to a shortage of suitable care options in the community
Chair of CCG's eastern locality, GP David Jenner, said: "In Your Future Care, the aim is to provide effective and easily-accessible care and support in the community so people are not being sent to hospital just because services are not available to look after them at home.
"People tell us they prefer to be treated in their own homes if it is safe and appropriate to do so.
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"If however they need hospital admission we should aim for them to return home quickly as soon as their condition allows."
The four options being considered are the loss of:
A) 32 beds in Tiverton, 24 beds in Seaton and 16 beds in Exmouth.
B) 32 beds in Tiverton, 24 beds in Sidmouth and 16 beds in Exmouth.
C) 32 beds in Tiverton, 24 beds in Seaton and 16 beds in Whipton.
D) 32 beds in Tiverton, 24 in Sidmouth and 16 beds in Whipton.
The proposals have been met with dismay and outrage from communities, hospital staff, representatives and campaigners.
CCG bosses say they recognise the impact on local health services of an ageing population, more people with long-term conditions and a challenging economic climate and it is these factors that drive the proposed new model of care.
They claim that every day in north, east and west Devon, up to 600 people are in hospitals - 100 of these in community hospitals - that no longer have a medical need to be there.
The CQC report states: "The evidence suggests we may be approaching a tipping point. The combination of a growing and ageing population, people with more long-term conditions and a challenging economic climate means greater demand on services and more problems for people in accessing care.
"This is translating to increased A&E attendances, emergency admissions and delays to people leaving hospital."
The commission reports that bed occupancy rates exceeded 91 per cent in January to March 2016 – the highest quarterly rate for at least six years.
The consultation document can be viewed at www.newdevonccg.nhs.uk, as well as libraries, GP surgeries, hospitals and leisure centres.


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'Avengers' DVD Arrives this Fall
THE RECORD-SHATTERING MOVIE
ASSEMBLES AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE ON BLU-RAY 3D™, BLU-RAY™, DVD, DIGITAL & ON-DEMAND on SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
And For The First Time Ever, Marvel Launches An All-New Second Screen App That Provides Fans With Unprecedented Access To Exclusive Content
BURBANK, Calif. June 29, 2012— Coming this fall, the third highest-grossing movie of all time and the #1 movie in the world, "Marvel's The Avengers" assembles as you've never seen it before on Blu-ray 3D™, Blu-ray™, DVD, Digital and On-Demand platforms on September 25, 2012. In anticipation of this release, Marvel is also launching an all-new App in July – "The Avengers Initiative: A Marvel Second Screen App" (available for the first time on iPhone) – that gives fans unprecedented access to exclusive content building up to the home entertainment release.
The announcement comes as Marvel's The Avengers crossed the incredible $600 million domestic box office threshold on June 26 – only the third film in history to do so. It has now grossed an estimated $1.44 billion globally.
Providing viewers with the ultimate in-home experience, the premium 4-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack provides 5-unique ways to enjoy Marvel's The Avengers (on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy and Digital Download of "Avengers Assembled" Music from and inspired by the film) and brings to life the Super Hero team-up of a lifetime in a whole new dimension on Blu-ray hi-def with stunning visual effects, superior sound and unparalleled bonus content.
Extras include a gag reel, a first for a Marvel Studios film, the chance to hear from the cast and Joss Whedon on their experiences in bringing these larger than life characters to the big screen, a behind-the-scenes look at the groundbreaking visual effects and stunning cinematography, the creation of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier, Soundgarden's "Live to Rise" Music Video, deleted scenes and more!
Also for the first time ever, fans will be able to enjoy even more of the Marvel Universe via the all-new "The Avengers Initiative: A Marvel Second Screen App." By downloading this onto a secondary device, consumers will be able to gain unprecedented access to exclusive content building up to the home entertainment release on September 25. Pieces will be unleashed bi-weekly in July & August and weekly in September leading up to a full immersive experience accompanying the film on Blu-ray. Content includes special access to the S.H.I.E.L.D. database, becoming a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, invitations to "special missions" either remotely or in the field, links to character profiles, stories and scenes, interactive Marvel digital reader comic books and more. App owners will receive push notifications whenever new content is uploaded and available for their viewing.
The full range of Marvel's The Avengers home entertainment offerings and bonus features are as follows:
PACKAGING & BONUS FEATURES:
4-Disc Combo Pack (Blu-ray 3D+Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy+Digital Download of the "Inspired By" album)
Bonus Includes:
Assembling the Ultimate Team
A Visual Journey
Gag Reel
Audio Commentary—With Joss Whedon
Soundgarden Music Video—"Live to Rise"
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Same as the 4-Disc Combo Pack above
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High-Definition & Standard Definition Digital
Suggested Retail: 4-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack = $49.99 U.S./$59.99 Canada
Pricing: 2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack =$39.99 U.S./$46.99 Canada
1-Disc DVD = $29.99 U.S./$35.99 Canada
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Feature Run Time: 143 Minutes
Ratings: U.S.: PG-13 (bonus features not rated)
Aspect Ratio: Blu-ray & DVD = 1.78:1
Audio: Blu-ray 3D & Blu-ray 2D = English 7.1 DTS-HDMA, French-Canadian 7.1 DTS-HDHR, Latin Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, English DVS 2.0 Dolby Digital
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Marvel Studios presents Marvel's The Avengers—the team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Tom Hiddleston, with Stellan Skarsgard and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, and directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel's The Avengers is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series The Avengers, first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Marvel's The Avengers is presented by Marvel Studios in association with Paramount Pictures. The film was produced by Marvel Studios' President Kevin Feige and executive produced by Alan Fine, Jon Favreau, Stan Lee, Louis D'Esposito, Patricia Whitcher, Victoria Alonso and Jeremy Latcham. The story was by Zak Penn and Joss Whedon and the screenplay was by Joss Whedon. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, the film smashed the industry record for the biggest domestic opening of all time with $207.4M, crossed the $1 billion global box office threshold in 19 days, and currently stands as the #3 global and domestic release of all time.
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By dudley228 • Posted in Movies, Press Release	• Tagged Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Joss Whedon, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel's The Avengers, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Hiddleston, Walt Disney Studios
Experience 'The Cabin in the Woods' this Weekend
Experience The Cabin in the Woods this Weekend
It has been two years since the little mutant in the Mutant Enemy logo graced a screen, the small screen. It's back and it's on the big screen, which is great to see. From the moment The Cabin in the Woods starts, it doesn't begin like a typical horror movie with the introduction of the potential victims the protagonists.
This movie begins like it does because it is written by Joss Whedon, creator of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, and Firefly and Drew Goddard, who wrote for both Buffy and Angel. They threw out the rule book because they don't follow the rules. They want to be original. Whedon and Goddard fans know this.
The movie starts with Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) and Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) in an underground location just having a conversation about consequences and a certain "scenario." They could be two business men or friends just talking until Whedon alum Amy Acker (Angel, Dollhouse) shows up in her lab coat. I think Acker has kept the same wardrobe from her days on Angel and Dollhouse. The audience has no clue what is going on. After Acker appears on screen, it opens up numerous possibilities that these three characters are working at a research lab, at a government agency, or any other possibility that could cross a person's mind. This question is eventually answered.
Fran Kraz (Dollhouse), another Whedon alum, portrays drug smoking Marty. He is smoking an interesting bong when he first arrives on the scene. He is the funniest character in the movie and is one of the five friends who go on vacation together. Marty and the other friends, who are portrayed by Kristen Connolly (As the World Turns), Chris Hemsworth (2009s Star Trek), Anna Hutchison (Wild Boys), and Jesse Williams (Grey's Anamony), are introduced after the interesting set-up of the introduction of the movie's title.
The other known face in the movie is Hemsworth who audiences will know as the title character in Thor. He will be back in theaters in May when Whedon's The Avengers come out. He was filming this movie in 2009 when he received the title role in Kenneth Branagh's Thor.
Tom Lenk (Buffy, Angel), another Whedon alum, makes an appearance in the movie playing a minor character, Ronald the Intern.
Just like any horror movie, you will start liking these characters and wish they could all survive, but you know that won't happen. This is a horror movie after all and when you start out with five characters, you know that most of them will be dead by the end of the movie.
The movie has many great moments in it. There is one scene where all these monsters are locked up then get freed. There are recognizable monsters like the Wolfman, a giant cobra and this evil looking Transformer-type with multiple sawblades. When these monsters break free and people began to die, it is reminiscent of the Buffy episode, "Primeval," where all hell breaks loose in the Initiative. This is the one scene in the movie that will require multiple viewings just to see every single creature causing mayhem.
If you like Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, you will love The Cabin in the Woods. It is filled with his style of humor and horror mixed together in one entertaining movie. This review is vague so it won't ruin the movie for you and because one of the joys of this movie is experiencing it for the first time. Just sit back and enjoy the ride Whedon and Goddard take you on.
By dudley228 • Posted in Jason Harris, Movies	• Tagged Amy Acker, Angel, Bradley Whitford, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chris Hemsworth, Dollhouse, Drew Goddard, Fran Krantz, Joss Whedon, Kristen Connolly, Richard Jenkins, The Cabin in the Woods
Two Actors Leave the Forest to Discuss 'The Cabin in the Woods'
Two Actors Leave the Woods to Discuss The Cabin in the Woods
Actors Kristen Connolly and Fran Krantz. Photo by Jason Harris.
Kristen Connolly and Fran Krantz, two of the stars of The Cabin in the Woods, recently sat down in a Boston hotel to discuss their movie, which opens in theaters on Friday.
The movie was written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard and directed by Goddard.
Krantz thought the script was "perfect" while Connolly was "surprised" by it.
"I was blown away when I first read it," Krantz said. "I worked with Joss so I expected it to be more than what the title suggested."
He never could have predicted in his "wildest imagination" where this movie was going.
The Cabin in the Woods movie poster. Photo by Jason Harris.
"The poster says, you think you know the story, but it couldn't be more accurate," Krantz said.
As Connolly was reading the script, it was hard for her to picture some parts including the scene where her character is getting the crap beat out of her, she said. But in the finish product, the music in that scene is "really amazing."
Krantz felt such a strong connection to the script and felt an "ownership" to it, which he considers "rare in an actor."
"It was difficult if I didn't get it, it was going to haunt me for the rest of my life because I loved the movie so much on paper."
Even though the movie was shot in 2009, Krantz never lost faith that it would see the inside of a movie theater even though other people didn't think it would.
"I knew how good the movie was," Krantz said. "I was always confident that it would come out. It's satisfying now that you can already feel the buzz around it."
Connolly said, "it was cool to watch [the movie] at South by Southwest. It was so crazy, it was like a rock show. There was cheering and laughing. It was so cool that there was so much energy in that room. It was a truly extraordinary experience."
Both Connolly and Krantz auditioned for their parts in the movie. At the time, Krantz was working on Whedon's newest television series, but that didn't give him a leg up on anyone else.
"I auditioned like any other movie, which was weird since I was working on Dollhouse," Krantz said.
When Goddard visited the set to talk over possible shooting locations with Whedon before Krantz even got a call about auditioning for a part, he walked over to where they were talking.
"I'm a big horror film fan so I just kind of wandered over. I wanted to see what they were talking about. They were looking at potential lakes for potential shooting locations."
Krantz said, one of those locations was "the original Friday the 13th Camp Crystal Lake."
"I started geeking out," Krantz said. "I was a big fan of those movies."
He told them it would be so cool if they would film the movie there, but the movie ended up being filmed in Vancouver.
Krantz and Connolly had good things to say about some of their co-stars.
"I think Richard [Jenkins] and Bradley's [Whitford] performances are so funny," Connolly said.
Krantz thought everyone on the movie brought their "'A' game."
Krantz said, "the performances are so great across the board."
During filming, he saw the dailies of co-star Chris Hemsworth and thought he was "a movie star." Hemsworth received his role in Thor and the Red Dawn remake while filming The Cabin in the Woods. Chris' younger brother, Liam, was considered for the role of Thor first before it went to Chris, Krantz said.
"I know Joss called Kenneth Branagh and at some point it started shifting gears in his direction," Krantz said. "I was not surprised at all."
Connolly thought it was a great break and a "no brainer" that Hemsworth received the role of Thor.
The Cabin in the Woods is full of scares and fears. Everything a person can be afraid of is in the movie, Connolly said.
"I think what I feel most afraid of is drowning or being buried alive."
She mentioned a particular scene in the movie where she is in a pond. She also found it hard to watch the scene in Kill Bill:Vol. 2, where Uma Thurman's character is buried alive.
"I have to get up and leave the room because [that scene] is so intense," Connolly said about Kill Bill.
The fear that bothers Krantz is "claustrophobia."
"The Descent killed me because of that. The monsters were scary, but I was far more uncomfortable with the earlier tight space moments."
You can travel tomorrow to see what fears The Cabin in the Woods contains when it opens in theaters nationwide.
By dudley228 • Posted in Article, Interview, Jason Harris, Movies	• Tagged Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth, Dollhouse, Drew Goddard, Fran Krantz, Friday the 13th, Jason Harris, Joss Whedon, Kenneth Branagh, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Kristen Connolly, Richard Jenkins, South by Southwest, The Cabin in the Woods, The Descent, Thor, Uma Thurman
Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Woods Looks Like Every Horror Movie (You're Gonna Love It)
This article originally appeared on Wired.com.
by Angela Watercutter
The new trailer for the Joss Whedon-produced film The Cabin in the Woods comes stamped with the very evocative message "You think you know the story…." It's a tease of the best kind because the fact that the first trailer looks like every horror film ever made is what makes it look so freaking awesome.
The movie's premise is simple: A group of friends go to a very remote cabin in the woods for a weekend of fun. The group (lead by a pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth) gets a little lost, but then the semi-friendly owner of a dilapidated country store helps them find their way to their decidedly freaky-looking shack.
Then, get this, the store owner says, "The lambs have passed through the gate. They're come to the killing floor." Things proceed to go wrong — very, very wrong (and very weird). Marilyn Manson's "I Put a Spell on You" (from the Lost Highway soundtrack, obviously) is playing in the background. It's so on-the-nose it's really hard not to feel like you're watching it at a junior-high sleepover.
But this is a film co-written by Whedon with Cloverfield/Lost/Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer Drew Goddard, who also directed the movie. All the predictability feels very intentional, and it's hard not to imagine that when things get even worse for your pretty young things that there will be great horror moments of the highest order (our guess is that the hot doctor from Grey's Anatomy — Jesse Williams — eats it first). Also, there are some unexplained shots of a mission-control-type place — the kind of high-tech headquarters that typically aren't seen in your run-of-the-mill horror flick.
There will also be plenty of tongue-in-cheek lines like, "We have to stay together," and lots of winks to the audience. We're counting on the stoner friend to be the narrator who points out all things intentionally over-the-top.
And since it's a Whedon-and-Goddard production, we're also expecting the third act to be more surprising than even this twisted teaser lets on. As the trailer notes, you might think you know the story, but "think again."
The Cabin in the Woods hits theaters April 13, 2012.
By dudley228 • Posted in Advice, Movies	• Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chris Hemsworth, Cloverfield, Drew Goddard, Grey's Anatomy, Jesse Williams, Joss Whedon, Lost, Marilyn Manson, The Cabin in the Woods


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After watching Ice Idanan's Sakaling Di Makarating last weekend, I was on the fence about it being a rip-off of "That Thing Called Tadhana" or perhaps just 'a way better storytelling' ala-Before Sunrise trilogy which 'Tadhana" obviously tried to emulate. What I didn't consider is the message within the film. Sakaling Di Makarating in comparison to the profanity-laden "Tadhana" has a much deeper message and obviously is more aesthetically pleasing.
What initially enticed me to watch the film is that it features the diverse beauty of the Philippines. Its beautiful landscapes being one of the focal points of the story should be a fantastic watch for a traveler like myself yeah? Then I found out that Alessandra de Rossi will star in it and I was absolutely sold! I knew I have to see this on the big screen.
A series of mysterious hand-illustrated postcards take a young woman on a journey throughout the Philippines in search of its anonymous writer.
The film didn't disappoint with its aesthetic value. It felt like you're traveling with Cielo (de Rossi) here – discovering the beauty of this tropical country whilst accompanying Cielo on her search for M.
Cielo's journey is a way for her to alleviate her pain and to find the answers to the many whys of her failed relationship. Cielo for all her strength is only human though. She's in the process of grieving and trying to decipher what her next move would be. Her journey to finding the postcard sender, M, is her journey to finding herself again. Some of us call it soul searching but more than anything else, I'd like to think that it's finding a reason to live again. The places she's been to, I'd like to think, made her realize that there's so much more to life.
The storyline, however, felt a bit disjointed for me. It's like I'm watching a movie within a movie, rather it felt like watching two films altogether. The connection between the first and the latter part of the film was startlingly obvious but it felt forced. Good thing, the kid who played Sol (Teri Malvar) is an absolute joy to watch! When the spotlight was focused on her, 'girl just kick some ass like no other.
I have to be honest though. I actually enjoyed the latter part of the film more. The beginning which I find a bit mechanical was too reminiscent of 'That Thing Called Tadhana.' The dialogue were a bit off and Paul's character was unnecessary in my opinion. The short affair involving Manuel (JC Santos) was a rather welcome distraction from the bleak narrative of the first half of the film. The parallelism of their scenes in connection to M at the latter part was just too clever! I just loved how so apt it was. I'm not sure if it's just me who thought of it but if you think about it, there's a rather eerie similarity.
Overall, this film was able to deliver a solid ending. The story may or may not work with many but there's a chance for it to have a sequel. I'd love for it to have a sequel! I want a storyline with more of Paul in it. Maybe, I'm just not giving him a chance. The story could be everybody's story who struggle not only with their love life but simply every day and are looking for an escape. The film won't fix your problems but it will inspire you to go out there. Have the courage to search for what you're looking for and as corny as it may sound, you have to remember that you only live once…
Director: Ice Idanan
Cast: Alessandra de Rossi, Teri Malvar, JC Santos, Pepe Herrera
Rating: 7 out of 10 stars
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HOW DO I PREPARE FOR A SOFT TISSUE/LUMP ULTRASOUND APPOINTMENT?
In general, there are no special preparations required before the ultrasound but your doctor may provide you with specific instructions. Dress in clothes that allow for easy access to examine the soft tissue/lump, otherwise, a medical gown will be provided.
WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT DURING A SOFT TISSUE/LUMP ULTRASOUND APPOINTMENT?
Upon arrival, you will be shown to a private room where the ultrasound technician will offer you a medical gown to change into if needed. You will be asked to remove any jewellery that may interfere with the ultrasound procedure. When ready, the ultrasound technician will apply a small amount of a water-based gel to the transducer head and gently move it along the soft tissue/lump with mild to moderate pressure to capture clear images. Once all necessary images have been captured, you will be able to wipe off the gel and get dressed.


Located just a short walk from the glorious shorelines of Fanabe Beach in Tenerife, this hotel is perfect for those seeking a beach getaway. Set within the relaxed yet beautiful resort of Costa Adeje, there's plenty to keep you occupied – from a plethora of excellent water sports to numerous sightseeing opportunities.
The hotel's main feature is its swimming pools, offering a place for families and couples to relax. Go for a refreshing swim in one of the two freshwater swimming pools, or let the little ones splash around in the designated children's pool. As well as refreshing drinks, there are a variety of snacks to be enjoyed at the poolside bar – ideal for when you're feeling peckish!
There's also a variety of activities to keep you occupied in the Be Live Experience La Nina. Squash courts make for a great place to get competitive, while billiards tables, pool tables and ping-pong let you indulge in something a little more light-hearted. Alternatively, soak up the heat from the relaxing solarium or unwind in one of the hot tubs near the pools.
The Be Live Experience La Nina offers everything you need for a comfortable stay, including a 24-hour reception on hand for any queries you might have. The Teide restaurant serves up a range of delicious dishes and local offerings throughout the day, as well as hot and cold snacks for even the fussiest of eaters. Locally produced alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are served well into the evening.
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Are you looking for a way to increase the capabilities of your football team? Is your football team leaving something to be desired? Are you looking to skyrocket your team's effectiveness with the most effective drills and plays?
Youth Football Resources
By Karel Savry on Fri, 12 Jul 2019
These Youth Football Playbooks give you the ability to lead your youth football team to win after win through a series of three eBooks: T Formation, Pistol Offense, and Shotgun Jet/Fly Offense books. Each eBook contains over 70 fully diagrammed, full color plays and a full series based offense. This is not simple a collection of plays; it is a full guide of strategies. Each guide not only contains how to run the play; it gives additional runs and plays that compliment the main strategy. There are simply blocking strategies that you can easily teach your players. As a bonus, the T Formation eBook contains 8 Wildcat Formation Plays you can teach your team. This set of eBooks will help you coach your youth football team on a level they understand.
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Author: Dana Larson
My Youth Football Resources Review
I usually find books written on this category hard to understand and full of jargon. But the author was capable of presenting advanced techniques in an extremely easy to understand language.
All the modules inside this e-book are very detailed and explanatory, there is nothing as comprehensive as this guide.
Protein And Performance
Last Updated on Sun, 16 Sep 2018 | Sports Nutrition
Although nitrogen balance and stable isotope studies are of great interest in building an experimental database to support, refute, or challenge official published levels of requirements, from a practical standpoint, coaches, athletes, and individuals involved in daily exercise regimens are not usually interested in the scientific debate over the issue of protein requirements. Performance is ultimately the only outcome that is important for athletes. Many authors have made this point, yet the studies that have attempted to investigate the influence of protein intake on performance have been scarce 10,11,16,18,51 . Millward 10 stated, ''Thus, the key test of adequacy of either protein or amino acid intake must be the long-term response in terms of the specific function of interest.'' This key test would vary for each type of exercise training performed, each sport, each position within a particular sport, and even among individuals participating in any given event or sharing a position...
Are you delusional about your fiber makeup
Last Updated on Fri, 29 Jan 2016 | Muscle Building
For the last two decades, I have trained mainly Olympians. Therefore athletes who went through an extensive selection process before I ever got the chance to work with them. One of the factors that made them superior was their superior fiber make-up. Even amongst that select segment of the population, only a small percentage 0.3 had scores below 3 reps on the 85 of 1 R.M The athletes who achieved such scores were throwers, American Football wide receivers and running backs, lugers, bobsledders, weightlifters and judokas.
Who Would Benefit from a Sport Drink
Last Updated on Sun, 02 Sep 2018 | Optimal Health
Even athletes competing in intermittent action sports such as soccer, ice hockey, and football can benefit from a sport drink. These sports are powered by muscle glycogen and a sport drink can improve performance in repeated sprinting efforts. Plus for sports such as ice hockey and football uniforms and gear can increase sweating and thus the need for fluid to maintain optimal hydration becomes more important.
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What Are Protein Recommendations for Endurance Athletes
Last Updated on Sun, 10 Jan 2016 | Optimal Health
Bodybuilders, power lifters, and football players recognize high protein intakes as an avenue to achieve and maintain enhanced muscle mass. Contrarily, endurance athletes recognize a relatively higher protein (total grams) intake as a means of replacing the body protein used for fuel during training, competition, and recovery and adaptation. Although individual protein requirements will vary with the level of intensity and duration of the activity, some sport nutritionists recognize that 1.4 to 1.75 grams of protein per kilogram body weight will provide adequate protein along with a little extra padding. This is pretty much the same recommendation discussed previously for weight trainers however, because of differences in body weight the resulting protein quantity is lower for endurance athletes.
Dehydration and Performance
Last Updated on Mon, 07 Mar 2016 | Sports Nutrition
Whereas fitness exercisers (who work out for 30 to 60 minutes at a moderate pace three or four times a week) can easily maintain water balance if they are eating and drinking normally, athletes who exercise hard day after day can become chronically dehydrated if they fail to fully rehydrate daily. Football players in full uniform might lose far more fluids than they would think to consume. Having sweat-loss data eliminates the guesswork.
Spartan Principle on Neck Training
Last Updated on Wed, 02 Mar 2016 | Diet Training
For any one that does any contact sport be it football, boxing, wrestling, karate or just street-fighting (not really a sport - although some would disagree) having a strong neck is a tremendous advantage. It will protect you from injury, increase the power of your headbutts, and it's always exposed, so should be in good condition.
Can Fat Help Protect the Body
Last Updated on Wed, 30 Dec 2015 | Optimal Health
Fat tissue provides some protection to various tissues in the body. For instance, fat tissue around our internal organs provides some cushioning. This helps protect the organs against external trauma. Furthermore, the subcutaneous layer of fat storage also provides some cushioning, which protects muscle. Subcutaneous fat is not well vasculated, meaning that there aren't a lot of blood vessels in that tissue relative to other tissue. Meanwhile, skeletal muscle is heavily endowed with blood vessels which provide oxygen and energy nutrients during activity and exercise. In the absence of subcutaneous fat it would be easier to rupture smaller blood vessels in skeletal muscle, which then would be evident in bruises. As an example, prior to competition, bodybuilders will be very cautious not to bang into things or play contact sports (rugby, football, roller hockey, etc.). As they attempt to lean out for the competition, they reduce their subcutaneous fat to nadir levels, which would allow...
Examples of Sports Performance Theoretically Enhanced by Creatine Supplementation
Last Updated on Mon, 17 Sep 2018 | Fats and Proteins
Increased PCr Track sprints 100, 200 m Swim sprints 50 m Pursuit cycling Increased PCr resynthesis Basketball Field hockey Football (American) Ice hockey Lacrosse Volleyball Reduced muscle acidosis Downhill skiing Rowing Football (American, Australian) Heavyweight wrestling Power lifting Rugby
Carbohydrates and Athletic Performance
Last Updated on Sun, 10 Jan 2016 | Modern Nutrition
Carbohydrate present in muscle (300 g), liver (90 g), and body fluids (30 g) is the major fuel for physical performance. The ATP stored in muscle cells can only give high-power output for a few seconds. It can be resynthesized anaerobically for a further few seconds (5-8) by using the phosphate from creatinine phosphate. These short, intense bursts of muscular activity are found in sprints (100 meters), track and field events, and sports such as tennis, hockey, football, gymnastics, and weightlifting. If the maximum effort lasts for 30 seconds, then breakdown of muscle glycogen can supply the energy, with buildup of muscle lactic acid. Most physical activity, however, requires an energy source that can power muscles for longer periods. The duration and intensity of exercise determines the mix of fuel used. In resting or light activity, about 60 is from free fatty acids (FFAs) and tri-glycerides in muscles. At moderate levels of activity (approximately 50 of the maximum O 2 uptake),...
Long Term Supplementation
Last Updated on Tue, 02 Feb 2016 | Fats and Proteins
Theoretically, increasing the ability to perform high-intensity exercise may lead to greater training adaptations over time. Consequently, a number of studies have evaluated the effects of creatine supplementation on training adaptations. For example, Vandenberghe et al.25 reported that in comparison to a placebo group, creatine supplementation (20 g day x 4 days 5 g day x 65 days) during 10 weeks of training in women increased total creatine and PCr content, maximal strength (20 to 25 ), maximal intermittent exercise capacity of the arm flexors (10 to 25 ), and FFM by 60 . In addition, the researchers reported that creatine supplementation during 10 weeks of detraining helped maintain training adaptations to a greater degree. Noonan and collaborators65 reported that creatine supplementation (20 g day x 5 days 0.1 or 0.3 g kg day of FFM x 51 days) in conjunction with resistance and speed agility training significantly improved 40-yard dash time and bench press strength in 39 college...
Have You Ever Wondered
Last Updated on Tue, 23 Oct 2018 | Food and Nutrition
Hold your baby with the head facing your breast, and his or her body tucked under your arm at your side. Your forearm supports the baby's back, and his or her legs and feet should point toward your back. Rest the baby on a pillow near your elbow to give support and slightly raise his or her head.
Nutrition Recommendations for Masters Athletes
Last Updated on Tue, 18 Sep 2018 | Sports Nutrition
Even professional athletes are pushing the idea that sports are not only for young participants. The National Football League reported that 43 players have played until the age of 40. In the 2005 season, 9 players older than 40 were active, including a 45-year-old kicker for the Tennessee Titans 4 .
Inside the rubber bag
Last Updated on Mon, 17 Sep 2018 | Poor Nutrition
As the bloodstream becomes depleted in energy, the fat cells notice this and respond now's the time to draw down the reserves. Perhaps the boss is stalking a mammoth and doesn't have time to scarf up some fruit and berries along the way (or maybe Monday Night Football's gone into overtime and the fridge is forgotten in the heat of the moment the world of the fat cell is a simple one, hardly cognizant of such modern problems). Individual fat cells begin to tap their storehouses and release energy into the bloodstream to ameliorate the shortfall.
Carbohydrates during Exercise
Last Updated on Mon, 17 Sep 2018 | Burn Energy
Hundreds of studies have shown that carbohydrates consumed during exercise delay fatigue in endurance athletes, but carbohydrates during exercise also are important for athletes in high-intensity stop-and-go sports such as soccer, ice hockey, tennis, basketball, baseball, and football, as well as in precision sports. Carbohydrate consumption during all sports can help ward off fatigue within muscles but also the mental fatigue that can be associated with sports requiring lots of concentration. Remember, the brain is the hungriest of all organs for glucose. In fact, the brain is twenty to thirty times more metabolically active than muscles, and unlike other tissues, the brain can utilize only glucose for fuel.
Three different people
Last Updated on Wed, 06 Apr 2016 | Poor Nutrition
When Sam eats the same number of calories as he burns, the ball rests at the bottom of the bowl and his appetite is silent. If less food goes in than he burns, whether from skipping meals, eating less at each meal, or from the extra calories he burns up practicing wolverine juggling three times a week, the ball drifts to the left. As it does, his appetite begins to signal, subtly at first then with increasing stridency, the need for more food. Conversely, when too many working lunches become rounds of eat fast or get the anchovies when Sunday afternoon touch football in the back yard is supplanted by Monday Night Football in front of the illuminatus, too many calories begin to push the ball to the right. How can you think of food , groans Sam. You guys enjoy your burgers. All I want is a stalk of celery and a good night's sleep
Athletes with Weight Limits
Last Updated on Mon, 16 Sep 2019 | Sports Nutrition
If you are worried that strict dieting as a teenager will stunt your growth, note that you will catch up after the competitive season. Many wrestlers are short in stature not because of malnutrition but because of genetics. They tend to have short parents. Small people often select a low-weight sport because they are more suited for it than they are for football or basketball.
Brawny Man to Scrawny
Last Updated on Thu, 10 Mar 2016 | Burn Energy
While there are always the exceptions to the norms, body size affects performance. Swimmers with long limbs need fewer strokes to propel themselves across the pool. Runners need to be light and have slim legs because they need to lift their legs off the ground to propel themselves thousands of times during each run. On the other hand, football or basketball players need more mass and power to be able to move the weight of opposing athletes. Triathletes, as well as other multisport athletes, tend to have varying body sizes because they need to excel at a variety of disciplines.
Lesson The Inverse Paranoid
Last Updated on Wed, 10 Oct 2018 | Sunfood Diet
If you experience negative emotions in your life, let them flow through you rather than bottle them within you. You can dispel negative emotions physically by hitting, kicking, yellow, and or biting. Dispel anger by driving a golfball, kicking a football, screaming aloud, and or chewing dark green-leafy vegetables. Let the anger pass through you into the physical object. Transmute anger into positive action.
Bad Cardio vs Good Cardio
Last Updated on Thu, 05 May 2016 | Lean Body
Variable intensity training to really reduce body fat and bring out serious muscular definition is performing wind sprints or hill sprints. Also, most competitive sports such as football, basketball, racquetball, tennis, hockey, etc. are naturally comprised of highly variable stop-and-go motion. In addition, weight training naturally incorporates short bursts of exertion followed by recovery periods. High intensity interval training (varying between high and low intensity intervals on any piece of cardio equipment) is yet another training method that utilizes exertion and recovery periods. For example, an interval training session on the treadmill could look something like this
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Last Updated on Mon, 01 Oct 2018 | Gain Mass
This is Alex P., I haven't checked in in a loooong time, actually its been about a year and a half, but i just wanted to say thanks for all the help that you and your guide has given me. I started out at around 150 pds, and now i am 208 pounds of muscle and benching 325, and I play LB OL for my varsity football team Thanks for everything Alex P., Tennessee
Top Non Traditional Muscle Building Fat Blasting Workouts
Last Updated on Sat, 10 Aug 2019 | Lean Body
Staircase Workouts - This is great because stairs are everywhere. You can go to a football field and do stadium stairs, any building that has stairs like a hotel (most people take the elevator, so you won't even have many people looking at you while you're working out), or even the stairs in your own home. For an awesome full body workout, try mixing stairs sprints with an upper body exercise like pushups or pull-ups. If done with a high enough intensity, stairs workouts help to create changes throughout your entire body due to the muscle building and fat burning hormonal response and metabolism increase that you get through working the biggest muscle groups in your entire body. If you thought that going up and down the stairs was the only way to get a good stairs workout. think again. My fellow trainer and friend, Virgil Aponte, has developed a website that focuses on creative stairs workouts using all kinds of exercises you never would have thought of before. I'll even admit that I...
Modern Trends In Strength Training
Last Updated on Wed, 26 Jun 2019 | Bodybuilding Recipes
Anybody who's been involved in bodybuilding for a while should know about or at least heard of Charles Poliquin. Poliquin is the world renowned trainer of multiple Olympians , american football players and literally thousands of people fortunate enough to be able to afford his services.
Tools to Test if You Are Overly Fat or Underweight
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 | Burn Energy
There has been an incredible increase in the heights and weights of high school, collegiate, and professional football, basketball, and baseball players. While some of the increases may be due, in part, to designer drugs, diet also has played a role in the larger-than-life sizes of many pro athletes. The downside to this increased girth is that research suggests that many pro football players are, well, fat.
Balancing Your Weight Gain Diet
For example, Alex, a high school football player, wanted to gain weight. He was 5 feet, 10 inches (178 cm), weighed 140 pounds (64 kg), and wanted to gain 15 to 20 pounds (7 to 9 kg). I calculated that he was maintaining his weight at about 3,000 calories per day, and I recommended that he eat about 20 percent more to gain weight and try to hit the following targets.
Can Chromium and Chromium Picolinate Cause Muscle Development
Sat, 25 Feb 2017 | Optimal Health
Earlier reports by some researchers stated that participants taking chromium picolinate for 40 days in conjunction with weight-training programs increased their body weight. Furthermore, most of the increase in weight was attributed to lean body mass. Another research study described a slight weight reduction in chromium-picolinate supplemented football players. It was reported that these athletes became leaner as a result of a decrease in their body fat. However, other scientists challenged these studies because the methods used in these studies suffered from flaws that easily cast doubt upon the credibility of the results. More recent and better designed studies, including those published in the highly reputable research journals, failed to show beneficial effects of chromium supplementation. Furthermore, studies exploring the potential toxic effects of long-term chromium supplementation have not been completed. Some scientists also speculate that picolinate itself may unfavorably...
Estimated Protein Requirements for Athletes
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 | Fats and Proteins
Sedentary men and women Elite male endurance athletes Moderate-intensity endurance athletes1 Recreational endurance athletesb Football, power sports Resistance athletes (early training) Resistance athletes (steady state) Female athletes occurs within the first several months following the initiation of a resistance exercise program. Therefore, we exposed 12 young males to 2 months of a supervised resistance exercise program (6 days per week, 2 h day, 70 to 85 1RM) and measured NBAL, muscle mass, muscle protein, and strength before and after a 1-month period, where they were randomized to receive protein at 1.44 and 2.6 g kg day. We calculated the estimated protein requirement during this period to be 1.65 g kg day.98 Strength, muscle protein, and lean mass gains following training were not different between the two protein intakes.98 We went on to use the conceptual framework put forth by Young et al.147 and studied the protein kinetic response to graded protein intakes in young males...
Young Adult Athletes
Last Updated on Wed, 30 Dec 2015 | Sports Nutrition
The data summarized in Tables 5 and 6 provide an overview of estimated relative fatness and associated variation in young adult athletes in a variety of sports. Samples sizes are generally small, and many sports are not well represented. Corresponding estimates for Fat predicted from skinfold measurements in national-level Polish athletes 43 and American intercollegiate female athletes in numerous sports are summarized in Tables 7 and 8, respectively. Within corresponding sports, Fat of female athletes is, on average, greater than that of male athletes. Variation in Fat by position or event within a sport is apparent for American football players (see Table 5), but is not marked among female basketball, volleyball, and track and field athletes, with the exception of the throwing events (Table 8). The preceding observations on ethnic variation are based on nonathletes. Corresponding body composition data for athletes are limited. Estimated fatness (hydrostatic weighing) of collegiate...
Last Updated on Tue, 08 Mar 2016 | Vegetarian Nutrition
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, athletes and their coaches have practiced special dietary regimens to improve performance and gain a competitive edge over their competitors.1-4 Milo of Crotona, a legendary Greek wrestler who consumed gargantuan amounts of meat, was never once brought to his knees over five Olympiads (532-516 B.C.). Roman gladiators believed that meat made them better warriors, a belief that persists to this day among many football, basketball, and baseball athletes.
Last Updated on Sun, 16 Sep 2018 | Burn Energy
Become a popular dietary supplement over the years. Its role in the body is to make the body more sensitive to insulin and improve glucose utilization. When evaluated as an ergogenic aid, only one study, with football players, showed that chromium picolanate the supplement could increase muscle mass. Follow-up studies revealed that this supplement did not provide any benefit for muscle gains or any changes in body composition.
What Is Carbo Loading
Last Updated on Tue, 02 Feb 2016 | Optimal Health
Theoretically, if you start out with more glycogen you should be able to perform longer. A more common method of carbo-loading is explained next and would be most beneficial when an event is to last more than an hour. Carbo-loading would not be beneficial for shorter endurance efforts or sports involving only brief efforts (for example, power lifting, velodrome cycling, or most track and field events). However, intermittent sport athletes such as soccer, football, and field and ice hockey players might benefit however, the practice and game schedule would make carbo-loading unrealistic in some cases.
Last Updated on Wed, 09 Mar 2016 | Fitness Health
I used this sprint training program to get in the best shape ever for my senior year of college football. Here's how it works you're going to do a 10 yd sprint, 20 yd, 40 yd, and 60 yd sprints. Sprint 10 yds, jog 10 yds, sprint 20 yd, jog 20 yd, sprint 40 yd, jog 40 yd, sprint 60 yd, jog 60 yd. Do this only once for your first workout, once a week. After 3 weeks, do the drill a second time, and add another training day. Work your way up to 5 drills.
Last Updated on Thu, 07 Apr 2016 | Well Being
The term overweight is used to describe an excess amount of total body weight including all tissues (fat, bone, muscle, etc.) and water. Obesity, in contrast, is an excess amount of body fat. An adult woman or man who has a body-fat percentage exceeding 35 percent (for women) or 25 percent (for men) is considered obese. A person can be overweight without being obese, as many professional football players and bodybuilders are, for such individuals have large amounts of muscle but not much fat. Likewise, a person can be obese without being overweight, such as some elderly individuals or lazy couch potatoes, who may not weigh a lot but have too much body fat. However, almost all obese people are also overweight.
Last Updated on Sat, 08 Sep 2018 | Sports Nutrition
A naturally occurring compound found in muscles (meat), creatine is an important source of fuel for sprints and bouts of high-intensity exercise lasting up to 10 seconds. This includes weightlifting interval or sprint training with repeated short bouts of explosive efforts and team or racket sports with intermittent work patterns, such as soccer, football, basketball, tennis, and squash. The typical diet of meat eaters contains about 2 grams of creatine per day vegetarians have lower body stores of creatine.
Last Updated on Sat, 13 Jul 2019 | Gain Mass
Three weeks later Thank you so much for this program. You were right about people thinking I would be on steroids. At a football meeting the captains told some teammates, 'Stay off the beer, stay off the chew.' Then, our Pre-season All-State running back tells me joking, 'Sean, stay off the steroids.' Everyone got a good laugh and I told them I had gained forty pounds since wrestling season. It was great Sean H., Canada
Living longer
Last Updated on Thu, 22 Aug 2019 | Poor Nutrition
I was never much of a one for sports. Every time I played baseball, I got hit in the mouth with a ball or bat. Whenever I played football, I ended up with a mouthful of mud. Imagine my delight when I discovered that the physical education requirement at my college could be satisfied by playing ping pong or on the rifle range.
Last Updated on Thu, 22 Aug 2019 | Natural Healing Powers
So we see that this vitamin mineral antioxidant network is highly compartmentalized so that each has its own zone of defense, much like football or basketball. This is another reason that all of the vitamins and minerals are needed in balance to adequately defend cells. Vitamin E's major role is to defend the membranes while magnesium, zinc, and other antioxidants primarily protect the DNA and cellular proteins. Vitamin C plays a major role in protecting the watery spaces both inside and outside the cell. Alpha-lipoic acid can go anywhere.
Last Updated on Mon, 15 Jul 2019 | Sports Nutrition
Such was the case with Wes, a 30-year-old photographer and former football player. He reported with a sigh, I was skinny all through high school. In college, my football coach insisted that I gain weight by eating extra buttered bread, piles of French fries, and mounds of ice cream. I developed quite a liking for these foods. I continued to eat them even after I'd reached my weight-gain goals. Voila look at me now I'm 60 pounds overweight and can barely walk, to say nothing of play football. I long for those days when I was lean and mean. With a food plan that contained no fatty snacks or sugary soft drinks, Wes did lose weight over the course of a year. That fall, he coached an after-school football program. He advised the thin kids to be patient, eat healthfully, and develop smart, lifelong eating habits.
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The Asian Art Museum presents Yoga: The Art of Transformation, the first major art exhibition to explore yoga and its historical transformation over the past 2,500 years through more than 130 rare and compelling artworks. The exhibition debuted in the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, where it was on view from October 19, 2013 – January 26, 2014.
All over the world, millions of people practice yoga to find spiritual insight and improved health. Many people are aware of yoga's origins in India, but few outside of advanced practitioner circles recognize yoga's profound philosophical underpinnings, its presence within Jain, Buddhist, Hindu and Sufi religious traditions, or the surprisingly various social roles played by yogic practitioners over centuries. This exhibition shows yoga's rich diversity and rising appeal from its early days to its emergence on the global stage.
Borrowing from 25 museums and private collections in India, Europe and the U.S., the artworks on view date from the 2nd to the 20th centuries, with a majority from the 8th to 18th centuries. Throughout the exhibition, stunning examples of sculpture and painting illuminate yoga's key concepts as well as its obscured histories. Early photographs, books and films show yogis not only as peaceful practitioners, but also satirized as sly imposters. Artworks and audio guides also reveal yoga's transformation in 20th-century India and the U.S. as an inclusive practice open to all. The exhibition's highlights include an installation that reunites three stone yoginis from a 10th century South Indian temple; 10 pages from the first illustrated book of yogic postures (asanas) from around 1600; and a film by Thomas Edison, Hindoo Fakir (1902), the first American movie ever produced about India.
After closing in San Francisco on May 25, the show moves to the Cleveland Museum of Art (June 22, 2014–Sep. 7, 2014).


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