I've been "Twittering" for a couple weeks now. I hear about it all the time, on TV, on the radio and even at the knitting shop. I only get the updates on the web and not that regular since I don't get on the computer that much. I don't like the random updates some celebrities do as I have so many to read through since last checking. Although the one from Marilyn today made me laugh and wonder why I was on the computer and not knitting on this rainy day!
So I think I'll share about my knitting. I am focused and on task for the pair of socks each month for my man. I have the yarn chosen and have narrowed my pattern options [I think] to two for April. I will be finishing this months pair by the weekend.
I'm having a hard time keeping focused on the Duxbury Point Wrap I started last November. I'm at row 96 on the 144 (yes, a gross of rows) row repeat that needs to repeat 4 times which equals 576 rows, gross. I probably did not want to know that…..
I have great expectations of finishing my Norwegian Fair isle Socks which is fun to do and surprisingly relaxing, except when the dogs run off with my yarn!
Also, knitting related. I'm attending the Loopy Ewe Spring Fling in April that I'm very excited about it. We had planned to drive but now with airfare being close to the cost of gas [and a desire to not sit in a car for ten or eleven hours] we will probably fly. Flying is slightly out of my comfort zone, as I don't do it often, the speed of time travel by plane is greatly appealing, however.
Since I mentioned the Fling, I should tell you that I am participating in a swap. It is intended so you get to know someone who also is attending the fling and therefore have a friend when you arrive. I have been partnered with Janice. She attended the first Fling last year and had a great time. I met her very briefly once before at the Midwest Fiber Festival in Illinois. I have put together her package and I chose some local things that matched her preferences and I am looking forward to her receiving them. I mailed them out today!
So, I hope it keeps raining and the rain barrels we put out Sunday fill up. I think I'll leave a twitter and then go knit!
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BATON ROUGE - Prom is on the horizon, and one local organization is making sure young women have the opportunity to pick out a dress at no cost for their special night.
"When you see the young lady find the dress that she wants it's just so rewarding," said LeJeanne Harris, the founder, and director of the No Glass Slipper Prom Dress Giveaway project.
To help those young ladies find their perfect prom dress; this Sunday Harris will be holding a Dress Giveaway.
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This will be No Glass Slipper's 7th giveaway. This year Harris collected nearly a thousand gowns with help from sponsors and the community. Lejeanne says to collect this many gowns, it's all about team effort.
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The Government of Jamaica in collaboration with its multilateral partners have committed to a broader tax reform to be implemented over the medium term.
Historically, the tax system has been characterised by narrow tax bases, distortionary waivers and non-standard incentives which assisted in creating an inequitable tax system with declining revenues (i.e. fiscal deficit). The reform initiatives will seek to broaden the taxable base, reduce tax rates and promote tax equity and economic growth in the economy, within the context of the Economic Reform Programme.
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A Disaster 50 Years in The Making
Tuareg Woman
Mali's problems did not start with the fall of Libya's Qadhafi. They started even before it gained independence from France. A diverse set of ethnic groups were forced to coexist without much thought of the immense potential for conflict caused by that arrangement. France's 25th hour short-legged attempt at Shock and Awe is potentially a doomed effort because it is a decade late. Relying on inept militaries, and hoping to win a guerilla warfare without a credible strategy is a defeat waiting to happen. A decade into wars of pacification, Western nations should resist the urge to fight in yet another war without fully thinking through the consequences– potentially disastrous. None of this is an argument to look the other way on the spread of Jihadism, it is a call to think, then act decisively. Too much is at stake.
Unlike some writings popping up with depressing regularity in English-language media, the current Mali crisis pre-dates Qadhafi's demise, and even the appearance of Jihadis in the territory in 2003. In fact, Mali's internal problems started even before it gained its independence from France. Azawadis sought desperately to have their own state when it became apparent that France was intent on abandoning the French Sudan. They latched on the mirage of the Common Organization of Saharan Regions (OCRS) created by the January 10, 1957 French law.
The OCRS covered areas in today's Algeria, Mali, Niger, and Chad. Had it been retained, it would have been an Amazigh-majority state with considerable Arab, Songhai and Toubou pluralities. The project however had another purpose altogether: divide and conquer. it was a French ruse aimed at Algeria's then independence rebellion led by the FLN. The idea was to keep the northern part of the territory as French, and offer the rest the option of independence.
Once Mali became independent, it took only 2 years for the first Azawad rebellion to break out in 1962. Triggered by their opposition to the then-dictator Modibu Keita's socialist policies, the Azawadis took to arms starting a tradition of defeating Bamako militarily that lasts till today.
That episode's trauma still lives today in their minds; Keita's army resorted to a two-year collective punishment campaign against the Azawadi population to offset their military defeats.
Entire areas were emptied of their populations. Long forced marches claimed the lives of hundreds, not to mention those shot because of their kinship with rebels, or the suspicion of being rebels themselves. By the time the revolt was crushed, the region had lost most of its charismatic leaders to war, or repression.
Azawadis troubles were only compounded by a combination of Bamako's brand of dirt-poor socialism and the 1968 droughts that decimated their cattle– just as it did Mauritania and Niger. Overnight, they became a destitute famished population. Dying by the thousands in their land of hunger, they began to migrate to the neighboring countries. The sight of clear-skinned beggar children wandering the streets a in big cities as far as Cotonou became common. It was at that time they found a sanctuary in Libya which began a utilitarian relationship ultimately ending with Qadhafi's fall in 2011.
Used as canon fodder in Qadhafi's foreign adventures in Chad, and brief clashes with Sudan and Tunisia, the Azawadi diaspora found work, housing and an income they desperately needed. Their remittances to their families and clans back in Mali offset the abject poverty resulting from Mali's failed governance and the climatic changes that wiped out their traditional sources of wealth.
In the meantime, Moussa Traoré's dictatorial reign over all Malians continued the trend of stagnation and impoverishment in all of Mali, not just Azawad. By the time he was deposed, the seeds of revolt planted by his predecessor were ready to harvest. An armed insurrection broke out from 1990-1995. Another one followed in the next decade, this time under a democratically elected government from 2007-2009. New-old Azawadi tribal and wanna-be chiefs have begun to learn another important lesson: if you fight Bamako, sooner or later, you will be recognized Primus enter pares.
In both instances, agreements were signed between Bamako and Azawadis promising to improve the livelihood in the north, the end of discriminatory policies and integrating some northerners in the state army. Both agreements, brokered with the help of foreign powers, broke down because of the faulty assumption behind them. These were arrangements where Azawadi chieftains were asked to accept remaining Malians in exchange for services Bamako offered as incentives for allegiance.
For too long, a lot of conspiracy theorists and crackpots have been spreading myths about Mali's travails. According to them, Algeria's military intel service DRS has been masterminding simpleton Jihadis. Even more predictably, said crackpots see America's hand under every rock, and caressing the back of every lizard running the Sahara desert. Sniffing for oil, and Uranium and other resources said to be under the arid desert.
A new false concept gaining currency these days is the notion that Mali's collapse is the bastard child of the Nato intervention in Libya. Sorry, but that does not even begin to explain the total collapse of Malian governance by the time Azawadis took to arms in early 2012. A considerable segment of the local population was not aloof to living in a free independent Azawad. They did not begin to grumble until they realized that they were in essence trading one occupation for another.
By the time Qadhafi's regime in Libya fell, northern Mali had been home to Jihadi elements that left Algeria a decade earlier after being thoroughly defeated in the civil war. By 2002, remnants of Algeria's GIA found sanctuary behind the borders away from their nemesis the Algeria's army. They were also attracted by the allure of making easy money by partnering in the flourishing Saharan smuggling commerce. Drugs, tobacco, weapons and stolen cars provided a lucrative alternative to war.
Jihadis made new and strange bedfellows in that period. Mali, Algeria, Mauritania and Senegal army officers started to skim off the new source of wealth. Getting a cut from the smuggling revenues in exchange for looking the other way was the the policy for almost a decade. Jihadis venture capitalism extended to an even more lucrative business: kidnapping western hostages all over the Sahara yielded over 90 Million Euros over a decade. Unlike the conspiracy theorists and snake oil merchants claim, things are a tad more complex in reality, and at times, even more unflattering to our world's big powers.
Time and again, European nations chose to negotiate, and pay ransom money. Germany, Italy, Spain, France cut deals with hostage takers not thinking much of it. After all, Europe's politicians thought the savages were deep in the Sahara and did not pose much of a threat beyond their forsaken deserts. Or at best, let the Malians deal with them. Complacency was Europe's strategy.
Slowly but surely, the region became a Jihadi Eldorado. The modus operandi was very simple: why get killed trying to create an Islamist emirate in "apostate-ruled" neighboring countries when you can build your own sanctuary AND have the West pay for it? Even better, now that you are flush with cash, blend into the local communities. Those whom you cannot buy, you marry. To Azawadis the offering was: Bamako cannot build you a water well? Here's a cash wad of Euros, go build it yourself.
Once the nexus was set up, there was no going back. The joint Franco-Mauritanian operations of 2010 and 2011 were just grandiose hostage release operations. By then, the United States had been pursuing its own classical approach of throwing money at problems it cannot deal with. Development programs were set up in Mali to reward the democratic progress. Military assistance in the form of training for the Malian military was ongoing. The US even tried very hard to get the neighboring countries to start a meaningful cooperation.
Algerians were miffed by the suggestion that they should be told what to do about their own security. Morocco was scheming and trying to make itself relevant in a problem it has nothing to do with just to score points over Algeria. Burkina Faso and Mauritania were fighting their own covert wars by proxy. Mali's government was doing nothing meaningful about the Jihadis in Azawad. Instead it was locked in a war of words with Mauritania's General Aziz who seemed intent on humiliating then President Amadou Toumni Touré for daring to oppose his coup of 2008.
When it was not busy blogging from Germany on its Maghrebia news website, America's Africa Command (Africom) in charge of the Sahel region, was in earnest trying to make sense of this maze of interests, pushing for a regional command to deal with the lawless mess that Azawad was slowly becoming.. All things considered, these efforts' ultimate outcome is not encouraging because yet again their premise is profoundly flawed: no country around Mali, or in West Africa has the muscle, nor the will to engage in an open war which in essence is a nation-building exercise.
All of these schemes and plans became moot by the time Ansar Dine's columns pushed south from its Azawadi sanctuary. The skeleton of an untested idea became a doctrinal principle in France's Operation Serval: we will stop the Jihadis, but the Africans will have to go north and defeat the enemy– said France. This plan of an ECOWAS force that will spearhead the fight with the backing of the African Union, and the necessary paperwork from the UN Security Council is a recipe for disaster. Rotten and corrupt militaries, commanded by equally corrupt leaders cannot be a credible partner once the shooting starts. This line of thinking owes a lot more to post-colonial discourses than it does to the practical matter of drying out the northern Malian jihadi swamp.
The other principle complicating matters is Africa's biggest taboo. Today, no one is willing to recognize that Mali, like most of Africa, is an artificial construct. Just like the Middle East's levant, countries were created without much thought of whether they made sense for those destined to live in them. Ethnic groups with competing cultures were condemned to live in them. Maybe they will end up making sense in the future, but just as in Mali, that will cost a lot of blood and treasure.
Although the logical next step in Azawad's history is independence, in practical policy terms, it is impossible to advocate for an Azawadi state now. Autonomy would be a good step in that direction, even if it's unlikely to gain much traction in African Union meetings..
This is the compromise that any serious attempt to defeat Jihadism must include. after all, as the French learned a century earlier, the only tried and tested strategy to control that area is divide and conquer. Giving Azawadis incentives to repudiate Jihadism is the only way to go. More importantly, a purpose and a reward for their past sufferings denying Jihadis the opportunity to pose as the people's defenders.
In plain terms, let the natives of the region do the job outsiders cannot do. Let them earn the right to decide their destiny in exchange of defeating all foreign and domestic terrorists who have infected their lives, destroyed their shrines and cut their limbs. Back those whose interest is to cut Al-Qaeda's tentacles. Keep a credible threat of firepower in place. Keep Mali's military under close watch, and neuter it if necessary– they have already caused more than their fair share of harm by overthrowing an elected government.
Put an offer to negotiate on the table and build smart alliances. Let diplomats talk, and keep warriors close. Feed refugees, and keep their hope of going back home soon alive. Only such a policy is likely to save lives, and defeat nihilist jihadism.
Today, hope for a better future is the only way to win a peace with honor for all the peoples of the Sahel instead of endless wars allowing criminal thugs to shape the region's future. Capitulating to fear and age-old hatreds is not an option.
Tags: Africa, AFRICOM, Al Qaeda in The Maghreb, Algeria, America, AQIM, Azawad, Capitaine Sonogo, François Hollande, France, French military, Mali, Mauritania, Opération Serval, Peace, Sahel, Stability, Terrorism, United States, War in Mali
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Home » Articles » Implementing injury prevention
Implementing injury prevention
The rocky road from RCT to real-world injury reduction
– Written by James O'Brien, Austria, Martin Hägglund, Sweden and Mario Bizzini, Swtizerland
During the last 30 years we have witnessed significant progress in the field of football injury prevention. Large-scale randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have shown that exercise-based prevention programmes can substantially reduce the incidence of football injuries. But while it is commonly assumed that the positive results of these RCTs will automatically lead to real-world injury rate reductions, long-term analyses indicate that the rate of some football injuries, including hamstring and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, are actually on the rise1,2. One of the reasons for this paradox is that many teams don't perform evidence-based injury prevention programmes as prescribed, decide not to use them or have no knowledge of the programmes. Bridging this gap between RCT evidence and everyday injury prevention practices in clubs represents one of the biggest future opportunities for football medicine. This article focuses on implementing injury prevention (that is, putting programmes into practice), including the research progress made so far and the challenging road ahead.
In 1983, Ekstrand et al3 published the first RCT on an injury prevention strategy in football, involving 180 amateur male players. In this landmark study, a multi-factorial programme including a structured warm-up and cool-down, education, taping and controlled rehabilitation led to a staggering 75% reduction in injury rates in the intervention group. Subsequent research progress was initially slow, but isolated studies in the 1980s and 1990s employing preventive balance exercises, reported promising reductions in the rate of ankle and knee injuries4,5. Since 2000, the volume of published research on injury prevention, particularly exercise-based programmes, has grown rapidly. Key examples of such programmes are the Nordic Hamstring exercise, the FIFA 11+ and the Knee Control programme.
The ability of these prevention programmes to substantially reduce the rate of football injuries has been clearly proven in large RCTs. The Nordic Hamstring programme reduced new hamstring injuries by 59% and recurrent hamstring injuries by 86% in a study on male Danish players from the top five divisions6. Knee Control, an exercise programme including strength, core stability and jumping/landing exercises (Figure 1), reduced the rate of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries by 64% in a trial involving more than 4500 adolescent female players7. The FIFA 11+8 – a 20-minute warm-up programme combining running, strength, core stability and plyometric exercises (Figure 2) – reduced overall injury rates in amateur female (by 32%)9, amateur male (41%)10 and collegiate male football teams (46%)11.
While the scale of injury reductions found in these RCTs is certainly cause for optimism, these studies also showed that the positive effect of these programmes is dependent on players and teams complying with the prescribed number of injury prevention sessions. Amateur adolescent female players with high compliance to the Knee Control programme had an 88% reduction in the ACL injury rate, a 90% reduced rate of severe knee injuries and 72% reduction in the rate of acute knee injuries, whereas the ACL injury rate in the low compliance group did not differ to the control group12. In the case of the FIFA 11+, amateur female teams with high compliance suffered significantly fewer overall injuries (-72%), compared to those teams with moderate compliance. Similarly, male collegiate teams completing a high number of FIFA 11+ sessions had a significantly lower injury rate compared to teams that were less compliant11. It has also been shown that compliance levels can decline significantly across a season12.
Low compliance is just one of many barriers that evidence-based injury prevention programmes can face along the road from an RCT to broad-scale reproduction under less controlled conditions. Other significant threats include teams choosing not to use the programme or having no knowledge of the programmes in the first place. For example, although 88% of top European teams were familiar with the Nordic Hamstring exercise, only 11% of teams performed it fully and 6% performed it partially13. This is despite hamstring injuries being the most common injury type among professional players and the strong evidence supporting the Nordic Hamstring exercise6. The authors concluded that use of the programme was far too low to expect any impact on the rate of hamstring injury13.
This shows that establishing the effect of an injury prevention programme in an RCT, while extremely important, represents just one step along the road to real-world injury prevention. A programme that successfully reduces injuries in the intervention group of an RCT, can still fail to achieve any large-scale and sustained impact beyond the teams involved in the study. Even the most potent programme will have limited impact if teams don't know about it, decide not to use it, don't perform it properly or don't keep using it14. The significant challenges involved in spreading the word on evidence-based injury prevention (dissemination) and actually putting a programme into practice (implementation) are gaining increased attention in the sports medicine field. The key steps along the path from a successful RCT to large-scale, real-world injury reductions are neatly outlined in the Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework (Table 115), which was developed to improve the transfer of evidence-based programmes into practice.
Applying RE-AIM to the example of preventing hamstring injuries, the Nordic Hamstring exercise has good reach among professional teams (88% know about it)13 and also scores highly for effectiveness (59% reduction in new injuries in an RCT)6. However, adoption of the exercise by these teams is very low (17%) and even fewer teams use it as originally prescribed (11%)13. Hence, the real-world impact of the exercise in this population of teams is limited. The RE-AIM framework can also be applied to recent research findings from the Knee Control programme, for which a 3-year follow up to the original RCT has been published16. Table 2 shows how an injury prevention programme, proven highly effective in an RCT7, can lose much of its impact along the road to real-world practice. Although the reach and adoption of Knee Control among coaches was high, implementation was low, with many coaches modifying the programme or only using it sporadically16. Similar trends have been reported in other football settings. For example, among high school football and basketball coaches in Oregon, half of all coaches were aware of injury prevention programmes, but just 21% reported using one and only 9% performed the programme correctly17.
Barriers to putting an injury prevention programme into practice are not solely related to coaches. In a survey of head medical officers from 33 top-level European teams, coach compliance to injury prevention measures was reported to be generally high18. However, player compliance was highly variable across teams, with only four teams reporting full compliance from all players and 17 teams reporting either 'low' or 'no adherence' in up to half of their players. Nonetheless, 97% percent of the teams rated player compliance as either 'essential' or 'very important' to preventing injuries in professional football teams18. Barriers have also been reported at higher levels of the football system, including national football organisations. The FIFA 11+ has been promoted in more than 80 countries (including courses, workshops etc.) and at three FIFA Medical Conferences, along with extensive supporting material including a website, a detailed manual, a DVD, a poster and a promotional booklet (all in multiple languages). Despite these efforts, the programme has been endorsed by only 20 (10%) of FIFA's national football organisations8. Fortunately, positive examples also exist, with countries such as Germany, Brazil and New Zealand embracing injury prevention initiatives and helping to show what can be done when sufficient political willingness exists19.
The above findings highlight the many challenges involved in implementing injury prevention programmes and that barriers can exist at multiple levels. Enhancing the real-world impact of these programmes requires an understanding of the reasons behind these barriers. Why do teams choose to adopt or not to adopt an injury prevention programme? And why do teams often perform programmes differently to how they were originally intended? Over the last decade, research has begun to shed light on some of these questions. In a sub-analysis of an RCT on the FIFA 11+ in amateur female teams, the probability of low compliance with the programme was significantly increased if the coach viewed it as too time consuming (87% higher) or was not football-specific (81% higher). Other studies in amateur teams have identified lack of time, low numbers of support staff, less coaching experience and the perceptions that programmes are difficult to perform or offering no relative advantage to their existing practice, as potential reasons for low adoption17,20.
In male academy football teams, the reasons for the use and modification of specific injury prevention exercises have been investigated21. For example, the Nordic Hamstring exercise was used in 9% of injury prevention sessions, with reasons for its use including the strong evidence base and the high incidence of hamstrings injuries. In a further 34% of sessions, staff used alternative hamstring exercises (e.g. deadlift, hip thrust) to align with athletic goals and add progression, variation and individualisation to the programmes. In other prevention sessions, the Nordic Hamstring exercise was excluded, with reasons including the perceived risk of neuromuscular fatigue, Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and injury. The successful delivery of injury prevention programmes in these academy teams was influenced by factors at different levels, including the player (e.g. motivation and absences), team staff (e.g. planning and communication), club (e.g. acceptance and culture), governing bodies (e.g. game schedules) and the environment (e.g. weather)22.
THE ROAD AHEAD FOR INJURY PREVENTION IMPLEMENTATION
Applying the RE-AIM framework to football injury prevention research can assist in identifying knowledge gaps and highlighting important directions for future research. In a recent systematic review on the reporting of RE-AIM items in injury preventions trials, a moderate number of papers addressed aspects of programme reach (34%), effectiveness (58%) and implementation (36%), but very few reported information on aspects of adoption (4%) or maintenance (<1%)23. Future research must address these gaps.
Reach the target users
Injury prevention strategies need to reach multiple targets including: the players, the programme deliverers (e.g. coaches/team staff members) and policy makers (e.g. club officials/governing bodies). Reach can be improved by embedding injury prevention programmes in coach education, using social media, apps and websites, along with the endorsement of prevention programmes by football organisations and high-profile figures. More than 95% of health practitioners and researchers believe that social media has a role in spreading and obtaining research evidence24. Social media is likely to play a significant role in improving the future reach of injury prevention due to its key advantages over other media; it is highly accessible at a low cost and it allows ongoing two-way communication (e.g. between researchers and players/teams). Examples of injury prevention apps include the IOC's Get Set – Train Smarter, SISU Idrottsböcker's Knee Control and Strengthen Your Ankle by VeiligheidNL.
The use of a comprehensive coach workshop improved coaches' understanding of the FIFA 11+ and their perceived ability to carry out the programme among Canadian amateur team coaches25. A predecessor of the FIFA 11+ (FIFA 11) was implemented on a national level in Switzerland by integrating the programme into coach education sessions. A 4-year follow-up found that 80% of coaches were aware of the FIFA 11 and 57% performed the programme, in part or full.
Enhance adoption
Knowledge of a programme or even good intentions to use it, do not ensure adoption26. Planning and organising how, when and where programmes will be delivered are crucial processes. Potential barriers to adoption can be identified by involving all target levels in the planning phase of injury prevention programmes. Enhancing adoption may require different messages for different target levels, as detailed in Table 36,7,11,21,27-33.
Increase effectiveness
Teams often modify programmes to fit their context, without knowing how this impacts programme effectiveness. Accordingly, there is a need for research to identify which aspects of programmes are indispensable for achieving injury reductions. It is also important to establish the minimal required training doses necessary to achieve and maintain positive effects.
Knowing more about exactly which types and doses of exercises are effective can help in tailoring programmes to different contexts (e.g. different competitive levels) and thus increase the chances of teams accepting and using injury prevention programmes. Some teams in amateur settings, with minimal training time and resources, will benefit from a simple, set programme which can be easily performed under all conditions. In contrast, professional teams will be better served by a catalogue of evidence-based exercises, offering multiple exercise progressions and variations, and covering each key area for prevention. This allows teams to adapt the programmes to different training locations, formats and cycles, along with providing adequate variation, progression and individualisation21,22. The effect of preventive exercises on performance parameters (e.g. speed, strength, jumping) also requires further research. There is potential to harmonise injury prevention goals (e.g. hamstring strengthening) with performance goals (e.g. increasing horizontal force production for sprinting)34,35.
Improve compliance
In addition to developing context-specific programmes (Figure 4), compliance can be improved by providing adequate supporting material (manuals, apps, online resources etc.) along with training, feedback and mentoring. However, very little research has evaluated how different delivery methods affect compliance. In an RCT on the FIFA 11+ in amateur female teams, a pre-season coaching workshop led to higher compliance with the FIFA 11+ compared to unsupervised website education, but the addition of on-field supervision of the sessions was of no additional benefit36. In an RCT of 220 athletes, two different methods of delivering a programme to prevent recurrent ankle injuries were compared; one group were offered the Strengthen Your Ankle App and the other group received a booklet. At 1-year follow-up, there was no difference between the methods in terms of injury incidence, pain/disability, compliance rates or cost effectiveness37,38.
Ensure maintenance
Finally, players, staff members and policy makers need support to maintain injury prevention programmes over multiple seasons. This can be particularly challenging, because in many football settings coaches and other staff members come and go, increasing the risk of prevention programmes routines not being maintained across seasons. Key factors are establishing systems and policies at the team, club, league and association level, along with providing ongoing evaluation and support. National insurance companies can potentially also play a role, by offering more attractive policies to players and teams who successfully implement and maintain injury prevention programmes and hence consume fewer healthcare resources. Long-term follow-ups to RCTs16, along with implementation studies over multiple seasons, are necessary to gain insight into the factors influencing programme maintenance.
Taken together, the current evidence highlights the need for a context-specific and multi-level approach to putting injury prevention programmes into practice. While the RE-AIM framework can assist in identifying and evaluating barriers to implementation, there remains the need for an operational plan to put all of this information into action. Padua et al39 proposed a seven-step approach to designing and implementing injury prevention programmes for a specific real-world setting. These steps are outlined in Figure 5, along with important considerations at each stage. Bizzini et al have also outlined a stepwise approach to implementing the FIFA 11+ in national member associations19.
Great progress has been made in injury prevention research over the last 30 years with the development of exercise programmes that can substantially reduce injuries under RCT conditions. We have also started to understand the steps involved in translating positive RCT findings into widespread injury reductions in the real world. By focusing more on successful implementation, the injury prevention programmes of the future will not only impress in RCTs, but equally in real-world practice.
The authors would like to acknowledge Dr Alex Donaldson for contributing to Figure 5.
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Australian Centre for Research into Injury and its Prevention (ACRISP)
Federation University Australia
Ballarat, Australia
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Football Research Group and Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Medical and Health Sciences
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Human Performance Lab, Schulthess Clinic
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There are a few things you ought to do if you shop at Target, which many people do.1. Check your statements. If you see any suspicious charges, report them immediately.
2. Contact your credit card companies if you haven't already. Then again, they may have contacted you. My local bank replaced my debit card last month, and I just got e-mail from my other credit card company today saying they've issued me a new card.
3. Take up Target's offer for identity theft protection. Target has set up an information page, where they will soon be offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection. As soon as it's available, sign up for it. I know it would be absurdly difficult for someone to take the breach information, steal the e-mail address and a person's identity and then buy a house, because it's absurdly difficult for me to buy a house legitimately, but the chances aren't zero. So take Target up on their offer.
4. Call your homeowner's insurance agent. Many homeowner's policies cover identity theft, or can cover identity theft for a surprisingly low fee–much cheaper than the identity theft products you see on low-budget television, and these policies won't interfere with your legitimate uses of your credit, which isn't the case for many of the other products. Call to find out if your policy does, and if not, ask how to add that. The magic words to ask for often are "umbrella policy." This will protect you after your year of free protection from Target runs out, and likely provides enough additional protection to be worth having anyway.
So, why does this story keep changing? Chances are, as they investigated the breach that happened during the Christmas shopping season, they uncovered more stuff. And it's possible that what they found was part of separate campaigns against the company. Many large companies have their own incident response team–I currently administer a centralized logging system for a large company's incident response team, and chances are the corresponding team at Target has been very busy for the last couple of months. It's also possible that Target contracted an outside firm to come in and help with the investigation. There are several companies that specialize in that, such as Mandiant. It's possible that the initial findings came from Target's own security team, and that these latest revelations came from an outside team doing its own an investigation on Target's behalf. The details of who investigated what will probably never be made public. In the case of firms like Mandiant, being secretive and shadowy is part of the business model.
But I think there's a silver lining in all of this. Fair warning: I'm about to get long winded here. At several points in my career, I've seen some security that I wouldn't even describe as an atrocity, because that's being too kind. I've seen systems that should have been shut down immediately, tossed into the nearest body of water and never spoken of again–they were that hopelessly broken. But it probably wouldn't surprise you to find out that doesn't happen very often.
I'm not saying that's what happened at Target because I'll never know, but the way an attack usually plays out is that an attacker finds a system that shouldn't be there, like an outdated server that everyone forgot about and isn't even supposed to be powered on anymore–it happens–and they break into it. From there, they look around on the network and find something vulnerable. Maybe they jump there and can see a different network segment that the first system couldn't see. With enough patience, eventually they're bound to find a production system that has some juicy data in it. Those are supposed to be much harder to break into, but not everyone deploys their monthly Microsoft patches right away, so if a good vulnerability comes to light, they may have a few months to be able to use it, and get into something important. A database containing customer data or a credit card processing system would be two examples. The biggest thing that's changed from the days of the classic book The Cuckoo's Egg is that dialup modems are a lot less likely to be involved now. Malicious hacking is still just about finding an opening somewhere, going through it, then seeing if you can find something interesting, or another opening.
So here's the thing. The next time I come across a system that does something that seemed like a good idea in 2005, or 1998, or 1973 but isn't anymore, I can mention Target. I can describe how an attacker could use this system to eventually get to the crown jewels, like they did at Target. And the people running the system might actually want to understand–because it affected them personally. Like me, they shopped at Target, and had to get their cards replaced. Or maybe they didn't, but a close relative did. And maybe that close relative even asked that person for advice.
Last year when I described embedding executable code in an Adobe Acrobat document, everyone sitting at the table around me pooh-poohed me. Too theoretical, and I was a dangerous person because I knew about doing that. Two months later I was looking for another job, and it wasn't a coincidence. But when security is personal, it seems a lot less theoretical and far-fetched.
You see, one way to steal credit card information would be to embed executable code–say, a keylogger–into one of those Adobe Acrobat documents and send it to a database administrator. The database administrator clicks on it, unknowingly installs the keylogger, then all of the DBA's usernames and passwords are getting logged. The attacker can wait for something that looks good, then when the DBA goes home, go get the credit card data.
Call that theoretical if you want, but I see similar things happen from time to time as part of a red team exercise. The bad guys can do it just as easily as the red team guys. Probably easier, since they have to worry less about collateral damage than red teams do.
So the next time it happens, I can go to the whiteboard, show how that system could have led to the Target breach if Target had that system, then show how something similar could play out wherever I happen to be at the time.
And even if the naysayers want to keep naysaying, there will be someone in the room who shopped at Target and doesn't want to be part of a similar mess.
So I think it's possible that other companies will take security a lot more seriously now that this breach has occurred. That's good for my career, obviously, but it's good for all of us personally too.
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StubHub, eBay Inc's online ticket resale service, has announced that it was the victim of a massive international cyber fraud ring. According to Reuters, details of the case are still continuing to unfold, but arrests are expected to be announced sometime Wednesday.
Glenn Lehrman, StubHub's head of global communications, told Reuters late on Tuesday that his firm has been working with law enforcement around the world for the last year on the case. CBS DC is reporting that more than 1,000 StubHub accounts have been hacked and the cyber thieves have fraudulently bought tickets using user's information.
StubHub, which is located in San Francisco, has reported that the cyber thieves didn't break through its security. Lehrman stated that the Hackers managed to get account-holder's login and password information from data breaches at other websites and retailers "or from key-loggers or other malware" on StubHub user's computers.
Reports state that StubHub first detected the hackers and the unauthorized transactions last year. At that point, the company contacted authorities and reportedly gave the affected customers refunds for the fraudulent purchases and helped them change their StubHub passwords, according to CBS DC.
The news of the StubHub cyber fraud ring comes just as Goodwill announced an investigation into a possible credit card data breach. According to a previous report by The Inquisitr, the investigation was announced Monday, July 21, after the company reportedly received a call from federal authorities regarding a possible data breach at American Goodwill stores.
Goodwill and StubHub join a long list of growing companies that have been recently targeted with similar breaches. Target was one of the recently confirmed companies with a breach in their systems which lead to hackers stealing more than 40 million customers' names, credit cards, security codes, and passwords, according to The Inquisitr.
StubHub and law enforcement are expected to release more information regarding this cyber fraud attack throughout Wednesday. Stay with The Inquisitr as more information becomes available.


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Coronavirus Q & A Part 2: Do vitamins help? Is…
Coronavirus Q & A Part 2: Do vitamins help? Is it seasonal? When will it end?
So many great questions. We'll ask experts to answer them
By Lisa M. Krieger | lkrieger@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: March 24, 2020 at 6:51 p.m. | UPDATED: March 27, 2020 at 9:33 a.m.
Stuck at home, readers have plenty of things to wonder about. So we asked the experts:
Read Part 1 of our Q&A here and Part 3 here.
Q: I can sew. Do homemade fabric masks help?
A: Homemade cloth face masks don't perform as well as professional face masks. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection and are not recommended for healthcare workers, particularly in high-risk situations.
But there is CDC guidance that says that if there's truly nothing else, one can consider facemasks. We're in a situation where we don't want to leave any option off the table going forward.
Dr. Paul Biddinger, Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Disaster Medicine links here and here.
Q: What kind of supplements should I be taking for coronavirus? What about that weird Internet rumor that holding my breath for 10 seconds will tell me if I am infected?
A: None. Holding your breath? That just astounds me because it's so blatantly crazy.
Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology, UC Berkeley link.
Q: I've heard ibuprofen can worsen symptoms. Is that true?
A: There's nothing that's been published in peer reviewed literature that suggests that it's a problem. It's anecdotal. Maybe they had had a patient who took ibuprofen, then got worse or had complications. But there's a simple way to get around it: Take acetaminophen, such as Tylenol.
Q: How reliable are the tests? And why bother being tested if it doesn't change the medical plan of treatment?
A: We can't answer that reliability question with precision at this point. In terms of 'false positives,' the test is very, very good at picking up the RNA virus. So there probably are not a lot of 'false positives.' There probably are quite a few 'false negatives.' That's because after you're infected, there's a period of time when you're not making virus. So your test will be negative, but it could become positive a day or two later.
From a clinical perspective, testing won't change your treatment. From an epidemiological perspective, testing provides data about the disease – how it's distributed in our population.
Q: Do any drugs work?
A: It may be another month before results roll in from very large and important studies of the promising antiviral agent remdesivir, made by the Foster City-based biotech company Gilead. Six large remdesivir studies are underway and hundreds of patients are now getting it on a "compassionate use" basis.
But there are early results from smaller studies, such as:
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine: French doctors at IHU-Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, France, gave it to 26 patients three times per day, over 10 days, sometimes combined with the antibiotic azithromycin. Patients on the treatment had less virus in their system after six days than other patients at a different center, who didn't get the treatment. But because the study was so small and not double-blind, we can't say it works. Some U.S. hospitals, including UC San Francisco, are including the the drugs in their treatment guidelines, so we'll soon have more data.
Favipiravir: In a Chinese study of 240 patients who were moderately ill, fevers and coughs went away faster on favipiravir than on a comparison drug. But similar numbers in each group ended up needing oxygen or a ventilator, so it's no silver bullet.
Lopinavir and ritonavir: In a Chinese study of 1,999 patients who were very ill, no benefit was seen. And 20% of the patients died. Researchers are now studying whether the combination would be more helpful for healthier patients.
Convalescent plasma: The concept here is to give sick patients the plasma from the blood of people who have recovered. The plasma contains viral-fighting antibodies. One recent study from China reported that of 10 patients given convalescent plasma, seven saw their viral loads become undetectable; it noted other improvements in their condition.
Technology Review, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q: Where's a vaccine?
A: Hopes are pinned on a new approach to a vaccine which could deliver help faster than others. It uses a molecular courier, called "messenger RNA," to trigger the production of protective proteins. The biotech company Moderna is the farthest along, but others are crafting a similar approach. It could take 18 months to prove safety and efficacy. Then supplies must be scaled up. But it might be available in the fall of 2020 to certain high-risk groups, such as health care workers, Moderna said.
Q: When will our outbreak peak? Two experts from different ends of the country offer perspectives:
A: We don't know. But we can look at some of the projections, based on the experience in other countries. With a lot of the modeling, the suggestion is that we're going to reach our peak in around 45 days (from March 18). That's a number that people are kicking around. But frankly, it's all a guess right now.
Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology, UC Berkeley, citing projections from March 18. Link.
A: I think 'soon' is exactly the right word there. Where I am here (March 24) in Boston, we think that we may be three, four or five weeks away from our peak of wave of illness, which means we have very little time to adapt.
Dr. Paul Biddinger, Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Disaster Medicine link.
Q: Will this coronavirus be seasonal?
A: While the flu virus has been shown to be affected by weather, it's unknown if the COVID-19 virus behaves similarly.
A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis found that the majority of coronavirus transmissions so far have occurred in regions with low humidity and low temperatures, between 37.4 and 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit. But correlation doesn't prove causation.
If weather does matter, we could have seasonal bouts, with the virus bouncing back and forth between the Northern and Southern hemispheres. This remains just speculation. And it shouldn't change our public health interventions.
Qasim Bukhari and Yusuf Jameel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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FDA advisers back plan to simplify COVID vaccinations
Q: Will there be subsequent waves of infections?
A: It's so hard to predict. We expect that this wave may last three months, give or take. In previous pandemics, we have seen later waves that are delayed by a number of months. During the 1918 flu pandemic, for example, there were multiple waves.
We're going to have to figure it out, as we get through this wave, how much of the population has immunity. Because ultimately — whether we see another wave, and how big that wave is — is going to depend on how much immunity there is in the population. If it's 70 to 80% immunity across the population, we may not see much of a wave.
But unfortunately it's far too soon to know. Before we can make that sort of prediction, we're going to have to do blood tests in search of protective antibodies. That will show us the level of community immunity.
Have a question about coronavirus? Give us details and we'll try to provide an answer in a future Q&A.
Lisa M. Krieger | Science/Research reporter
Lisa M. Krieger is a science writer at The Mercury News, covering research, scientific policy and environmental news from Stanford University, the University of California, NASA-Ames, U.S. Geological Survey and other Bay Area-based research facilities. She graduated from Duke University with a B.A. degree in biology. She splits her time between Palo Alto and Inverness, and in her spare time likes wildlife photography, swimming, skiing and backpacking.
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Campbell's Shayden Sabangan backhanded a ground ball behind a diving Ikaika Ganacial that was hit by Pearl City's Jensen Kaya during the 11th inning of the Sabers' only regular-season loss in the last two seasons. Photo by Cindy Ellen Russell/Star-Advertiser.
A fourth team has climbed to No. 1 in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Baseball Top 10 this season.
OIA West regular-season champion Campbell, which opens the OIA tournament at home on Thursday, received five of 10 first-place votes and is the new No. 1, replacing Baldwin, which suffered its first loss of the season to Kamehameha-Maui last week.
The Sabers had an 18-game, regular-season OIA winning streak snapped in 12 innings to Pearl City in March but have rebounded to win their last nine games and finish 11-1.
Baldwin, which won the series against KS-Maui in three tightly contested games, still managed to receive four first-place votes and only dropped one spot to No. 2.
Mid-Pacific received the final first-place vote and remained at No. 3. Punahou, which has to make up three ILH games this week, remained at No. 4.
'Iolani jumped two spots to No. 5, ahead of undefeated Waiakea, which dropped a spot to No. 6.
Kailua, which won on a walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning against Kaiser to end the regular season in the OIA East, jumped two spots to No. 7.
Kamehameha dropped two spots to No. 8 and Kalani dropped two spots to No. 10. Sandwiched between them is KS-Maui, which entered the rankings at No. 9.
Pearl City (eight), St. Francis (five), Mililani (four), KS-Hawaii (three), Kaiser (one) and Radford (one) also received votes.
The OIA playoffs begin this week. For an updated schedule, click here.
The ILH has a ton of make-up games this week. Mid-Pacific has finished its regular season at 12-3. Punahou can force a playoff with three wins in the next five days.
For the updated ILH schedule, click here.
How do the Puns force a playoff, they lost head-to-head to MP in regular season?
If Punahou can win their last 3 games, they would have the same record as Mid-Pac.
I will double check but I don't think head-to-head matters. St. Francis beat Damien two out of three times but they are playing a playoff game Wednesday for regular season after finishing tied. I'll definitely check on it.


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India-born eminent mathematician, wife give $1mn to US university
New York, Mar 7 : An India-born eminent mathematician and his wife have given USD one million to an American university to establish a professorship honouring legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
The new position aims to honour the genius Ramanujan, who made substantial contributions to mathematics in the early 1900s.
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has received the amount from mathematics professor emeritus VS Varadarajan and his wife Veda to establish the 'Ramanujan Visiting Professorship' in his home department, the varsity said in a statement.
The new post will help attract visiting faculty members in Varadarajan's specialisations of automorphic forms, an important concept in number theory, and representation theory, which has been linked to elementary particles and quantum physics.
The UCLA Academic Senate and the University of California Office of the President has to approve the chair's establishment. The gift is part of the Centennial Campaign for the UCLA, which is scheduled to conclude in December 2019 during the university's100th anniversary year, the article said.
The additional expertise would enhance the UCLA's renowned mathematics department, which was ranked among the top 10 graduate programmes in the country in 2018 by the US News & World Report.
The UCLA said Varadarajan's career included work in various areas of mathematics and physics and his research has been motivated by a "desire to understand the role of symmetry in mathematics and physics."
A Ph.D in Mathematics from Calcutta University and Master's in Math and Statistics from the University of Madras, Varadarajan has an honorary doctorate in physics from the University of Genova, and was awarded the Lars Onsager medal from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology for his work in mathematics.
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Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil
Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil (25 August 1923 – 15 September 2008) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.
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Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.
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James Stephens (author)
James Stephens (9 February 1880 – 26 December 1950) was an Irish novelist and poet.
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.
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JSS Banashankari Arts, Commerce & S.K.Gubbi Science College
J.S.S. College is a college in Karnataka, India.
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Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa and abroad.
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Karnataka also known Kannada Nadu is a state in the south western region of India.
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Kothrud (Kothrud Baag during the Maratha Empire era) is a western suburb of the city of Pune, in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Kranti Kanade
Kranti Kanade is a filmmaker from India.
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Long Day's Journey into Night
Long Day's Journey into Night is a drama play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1941–42 but first published in 1956.
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding.
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Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.
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Marathi language
Marathi (मराठी Marāṭhī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Marathi people of Maharashtra, India.
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Pune, formerly spelled Poona (1857–1978), is the second largest city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, after Mumbai.
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Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages (24 languages, including the 22 listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, along with English and Rajasthani) recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.
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The Crock of Gold (novel)
The Crock of Gold is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens and first published in 1912.
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United States Information Agency
The United States Information Agency (USIA), which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy".
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Vyankatesh Madgulkar
Vyankatesh Digambar Madgulkar (6 July 1927 - 28 August 2001) was one of the most popular Marathi writers of his time.
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Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
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G A Kulkarni, G.A. Kulkarni, GA Kulkarni, Gurunath Aabaji Kulkarni, Gurunath Abaji Kulkarni, Gurunath Abaji Kulkarni-.
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She is a counseling Psychologist with over 20 years of experience in helping and guiding students for career choice, psychotherapy, and personal or family issues. Her private practice is currently based in Noida. She is a trained Psychometrician. She conducts psychometric tests to understand the aptitude, skill, personality type, I.Q, E.Q. and so on. Therefore, She is one of best Psychologist and Behavioral Therapist in Noida.
She has done her graduation, post-graduation, and a doctorate in Educational Psychology with special emphasis on child and teenage issues. She got her total education from Delhi University.She conducts various workshops and awareness program for school children in different schools of NCR. Clients visit her or take tele-counseling or text counseling from across the country. All the cases are highly confidential. The approach for all clients is the desire to help them relieve their troubling symptoms and resolving their current life problems.The sessions are highly confidential.


WASHINGTON, D.C. The White House Historical Association is pleased to announce the ninth season of the summer concert series, Jazz on Jackson Place. Held in the Associations historic Decatur House courtyard, the Thursday event events are a highlight in Washingtons summer music scene. This year's performances will be June 4, July 9, and August 6.
Noble Jolley, Jr., is a Jazz Pianist, Composer, Producer and rising star who won the 2013 Best Pianist award by the Washington City Papers "Jazzies Award for D.C.s Best Jazz." He received a scholarship to study at Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, where he majored in Jazz Studies/Performance, and also attended the esteemed Paris Conservatory. He was an Artist-In-Residence at the Strathmore Arts Center and has produced, toured and/or opened up for renowned artists such as Ron Carter, James Moody, McCoy Tyner, John Legend, and Fred Hammond. His CD, "Memoirs Between Brothers, has gained positive reception and award recognition.
Big Band leader Shannon Gunn comes to Jazz on Jackson Place with her quartet. Stellar New York-based artists Miki Yamanaka, pianist, Adi Meyerson, bass, and Sanah Kadoura on drums promise to offer an exciting evening under the tent. Shannon Gunn is the leader of the all-female big band The Bullettes, and appears regularly with the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra. A graduate of Michigan State and George Mason University jazz programs, Shannon is playing a pivotal role in the DC jazz scene.
Thursday, August 6 Firm Roots Presented by Walker Entertainment Inc.
Firm Roots is an organic Jazz group steeped in the long tradition of the genre while still having a foot in the door of contemporary Jazz. Comprised of three masterful musicians Brad Collins on tenor saxophone and vocals, Mark Prince on drums, and Benjie Porecki on Hammond B3 organ. Between the three of them they have performed with Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Carlos Santana, Pieces Of A Dream, Maysa, Buddy Guy, Bobby Lyle, Jeff Lorber and the list goes on and on. Their latest release is Firm Roots-Live At Blues Alley".
Special thanks to Federal City Caterers and RSVP Catering for their support of the 2015 Jazz on Jackson Place Summer Series.
Federal City Caterers & RSVP Catering for their support of the 2015 Jazz on Jackson Place Summer Series.


Governance has evolved to be an extremely critical notion for the developed world as well as for the developing countries. For the developing world, novel concepts required for good governance practice may not be easily understood or widely practiced by the stakeholders of private or public corporations. Good governance is needed for numerous institutions both public and private. For public entities, good governance results in scientifically motivated policy development, an increase in accountability and transparency and finally the involvement of all stakeholders in the decision-making process. For non-governmental organizations, governance results in better allocation of resources, finding new opportunities for collaboration, and better cooperation with governmental bodies. For the private sector, governance increases the reliability of the organizations and contributes to sustainability, and a climate of trust to be established among the stakeholders. This chapter will include an extant review of the literature on how good governance and sustainable value creation come hand in hand.
Governance has grown to be an extremely critical concept for the developed world as well as for the developing nations. For the developing world, new concepts required for good governance practice may not be easily understood or extensively practiced by the stakeholders of private or public corporations. Good governance is required for various institutions both public and private. For public entities, good governance results in scientifically motivated policy development, an increase in accountability and transparency and finally the involvement of all stakeholders in the decision-making process. For non-governmental organizations, governance results in better allocation of resources, finding new opportunities for collaboration, and better cooperation with governmental bodies. For the private sector, governance increases the reliability of the organizations and contributes to sustainability, and a climate of trust to be established among the stakeholders. This paper will include an extant review of the literature on how good governance and sustainable value creation come hand in hand.
The paper is structured as follows. First the relationship of governance and corporate governance is clarified. After that the importance of non-governmental organizations in terms of governance is discussed. Then a newly emerging trend named NGO & Business Partnership is examined. After scrutinizing the notion of governance especially in emerging markets like Turkey, the paper's final section gives the recommendations and discussion.
Emerging Market: An emerging market is a country that has some characteristics of a developed market but does not live up to some standards to be called a developed market.
Corporate Governance: Is the structure of rules, practices and processes by which a company is directed.
Governance: The framework of rules and practices to ensure accountability, fairness, and transparency in an institution's relationship with its all stakeholders (customers, management, employees, government, and the community).
Sustainability: The quality of causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore being able to continue operations for a long time.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Abbreviated as CSR, this term is a business approach that contributes to sustainable development by bringing economic, social and environmental benefits to all stakeholders.
Turkey: A country with a population of 80 million lying on both the Asian and European continents.
NGO Business Partnership: These new coalitions help to reinforce the legitimacy and social acceptability of companies. In addition, they make essential goods and services accessible to a broader population.


I have a salt system and constantly need to add acid. Is there an automated solution?
There are a couple of ways to approach this problem. One is to simply deal with the symptom and use a complicated automated system that will automatically add acid as needed. I prefer, however, a solution that addresses the problem. The more your chlorinator runs, the more acid you will need and the shorter the cell life of the chlorine generator. Adding an ozonator will allow you to significantly lessen the run time of your chlorine generator. With the chlorinator running less, your pH will stay more stable and your chlorine will stay more active. Additionally, unlike pH controllers that require calibration, sensor cleaning, and acid mixing, an ozonator is nearly maintenance free.
Is a salt pool chlorine free?
Chlorine dries my skin, is there an alternative?
What do you do when you come every week to service my pool?
Does your company take care of everything, or do I have to rely on somebody else for repairs?
Do your weekly techs come on the same day each week?


We're now taking orders for Taunton magazines at special group rates. These rates represent a 20% discount off the regular subscription prices and are applicable to both new and renewal subscriptions on any magazine that Taunton publishes. Since we do this only once a year, in February, you may wish to renew now, even if your subscription expires midyear – Taunton will simple add to your current term.
In the interest of starting the new Year off right I have pulled the files used in the creation of our knife box project into a single mailing. I had to reduce their sizes with Acrobat Pro for them to mailable. Also some members don't have high speed internet so the smaller size works for them. Some of the documents were poor to start with and did not degrade when I downsized them.
The project knife box exterior is complete and I like it. This will definitely be a part of the March exhibit at Woodcraft Newington. Our next meeting is Feb 23rd and an excellent opportunity for everyone to bring in a piece for the exhibit to showcase what the Guild members can accomplish.
As an FYI we now have our own projector for presentations and guest presenters. I did spend an extra 10% over what we had talked about in the interest of getting a device with LED projection and good platform compatibility. I learned that the lamps in the non LED projectors cost nearly as much as a projector and the lifetime of the lamps were not very long. Our projector LED light source has a 50000 hour life and 4200 lumens. This should allow us to view our programs without putting everyone to sleep in the dark. We will still need a laptop to play a DVD or the DVD data stored on a USB memory stick or drive.
I am still working on the next meeting agenda but be prepared for discussion on future projects and learning.
Some PFG members were interested in building a jewelry box using some of the knife box features. I am working on a jewelry chest that does that. Make yourself known to me and I will get you in the loop. There will not be a detailed computer drawing of this chest because I don't enjoy spending my time that way. I am a napkin engineer/woodworker. I feel my time is better spent in the shop.
Both meetings were held at Bob LaCivita's workshop in Rollinsford. The October WFG meeting began with a demonstration on how to make the mortise and tenon door frame with grooved rails and styles. Bob explained that when using honched tenons, they would be honched on the outside edge. An alternative frame style, the cope and stick (Figure 1), using paired router (or shaper) bit sets, was also discussed and demonstrated in this session. Bob explains and cautions us when using the cope and stick method, to feed the rails and styles through the router bit very slowly, and to cut the copes into the rails first. Flat panels and bolection (Figure 2) panels were also discussed during this session.
Figure 1. Cope and Stick frame.
Figure 2. Bolection molding incorporated into flat panel frame.
We then reviewed proper allowances for wood movement of the panel within the door frame grooves; 1/8" per foot for across grain and 1/64" per foot lengthwise. The panel rests in grooves that are cut to 3/8" depth in the door frame. Before glue up of the door frame joinery, Bob recommended we do one or two passes of a hand plane to clean up saw marks from the inside edges of rails and styles. One additional step recommended prior to glue up of the door frame, the panel should be finished.
Final assembly requires precise application of glue to the frame joinery, carefully keeping glue off the panel. Similarly, final finishing of the door frame requires careful application of the finish to portions of frame that are adjacent to the panel within the door frame. By following these steps, the panel should fit snugly within the frame, but be free to expand and contract within grooves of he frame.
The December WFG meeting was a continuation of our discussion and demonstration related to making paneled cabinet doors. Today's focus was on a few different methods on how to make a raised panel for the door frames we made during demonstrations at the previous meeting.
Bob began by making a raised panel, using the shaper. The shaper cuts panels with consistency difficult to achieve using other alternatives. After setting up the shaper, an end-grain edge of a panel blank was fed through the shaper to make the first cut of the profile. Rotating the panel 90 degrees, the first long-grain edge is fed into the shaper, leading with the previously shaped edge. Bob notes that any end-grain tear out from the first cut disappears with the second cut. The final two edges were similarly fed through the shaper to complete the profile of the raised panel (Figure 3). The panel was successfully dry fit into a mortise and tenon door frame made during the October WFG meeting.
Figure 3. Raised panel made on the shaper.
Acknowledging that most of us probably do not have shaper tables in our shops, Bob shared a few alternatives for us to make a raised panel. A router table, a table saw, or hand tools could be used to make a raised panel. He cautioned us about the inherent risks of using a router table to make raised panels. Safely controlling a panel while its edge is being fed into and through the large exposed router cutter is a dangerous challenge for even the most experienced woodworker/operator.
Next, Bob shows us how to shape the raised panel profile using the table saw. First, using his marking gauge, he measures critical points from the raised panel he just made on the shaper and marks the layout for the next raised panel. The first table saw cuts are set at 3/32" depth to define the perimeter of the raised portion of the panel. For expediency, Bob completes two of the four bevel cuts, one cut along an end-grain edge and one along a long-grain edge, using the table saw with the saw blade adjusted to cut up to the 3/32" cuts (Figure 4).
Figure 4. Raised panel with two of four bevel edge cuts done on the table saw.
For the final two edges, he demonstrates how to complete the raised panel profile shaping with hand tools. Bob uses a paring chisel to hog off much of the waste wood before switching to a rabbit plane and his #4 bench plane to clean up any remaining waste to the layout lines (Figure 5). The second panel is dry fit, and then glued into a door frame.
Figure 5. Raised panel bevel being shaped using rabbit plane.
To close out the meeting Bob gave us a brief introduction into the first topic of our next meeting, hinges and door hardware. Following the discussion related to door hardware, the WFG meeting will begin a new series of discussion and demonstrations on joinery techniques. The next meeting is on February 2, 2019. We welcome newcomers, regulars and guests.
Since my dive into the PFG project of building a knife box I also have uncovered this information about the evolution and story of the knife box. I have had some good fortune of finding this information in old throw away library books by Edgar D Miller Jr , Wallace Nutting and Edgar P. Fitzgerald. Some I have purchased when rummaging in antique shop book racks.
The evolution begins with the sideboard. In the picture A the sideboard and and cupboard or pedestal appears upon which an urn is sitting. Note the sideboard and cupboards are not connected.
Robert Adam connected the cupboards to the sideboard making the set of 3 pieces and not 5 as shown in picture B. The next form was in picture C by Thomas Shearer a contemporary of Hepplewhite's. Of course these are all Englishmen. Shearer later made just the sideboard without the cupboards and urns. Shearer and the Adam's work was overshadowed by Hepplewhite and Sheraton. Shearer and Adams fade into obscurity.
The urn style of knife box were the first in the evolution. This seems to have evolved from the use of lead lined urns with a faucet to draw out "ice" water. Ice water was a treat and was fittingly withdrawn from these fancy urns. The faucet is seen in the following picture upper right. About 1785 is the best date I have for the beginning of these vessels. These are mentioned in Hepplewhite's Guide or maybe more accurately stated, "his wife's guide". In history she appears to be the author.
The urns have their own evolution when later they were made spring loaded with expanding internal compartments for silverware and utensils for use at the dinner table. These are seen expanded in the center pictures above. The bottom center picture is in a Sheraton style. Although called knife boxes and knife urns they were used for keeping forks and spoons as well as knives.
As the evolution continues the development of the sloped front knife box is seen. Hepplewhite and Sheraton are again the primary designers. These items were made from mahogany and or satinwood. Other woods were only used in the inlays and not construction.
The first line of knife boxes in the picture below are designs from Hepplewhite's book. Note in the plans how they began as serpentine form and morphed into a "broken" serpentine form. Some have feet some do not. Sheraton liked his feet!
The bottom line of boxes are Sheraton's boxes with the use of silver adornments making an appearance. I believe this last picture is also a Sheraton but from a different publication. The picture of the stairs has no relevance to this discussion. I just failed to crop it out because I think the stairs are really cool and very ornate.
Following the knife urns and boxes was the cellaret. Or in modern terminology a wine cooler. I don't have pictures of these.
In our project knife box example it is stated that it is not a typical knife box. It was made with a white pine body with a mahogany veneer. In the box I have built it is solid mahogany but with a mahogany veneer. Following my study I am pretty certain it was made in the colonies and not England. There were roughly 20 builders of knife boxes in the newly formed states. There were only a few specialists in England and the states who were building these. Our example knife box has elements of both Hepplewhite and Sheraton. I think the states builders were picking and choosing and doing what they liked and would sell.
I hope you have found value in this reading and will attend the next PFG meeting Dec 15th in Newington. Lots to discuss and learn as we continue with the knife box project. Also it is not too early to begin to think about our next project and what you would like to have presented at one of our future meetings.
Thanks to GNHW's generous grant of $1300 for a new Powermatic 14" bandsaw and with the help of Peter James expertise, a new bandsaw has been purchased at Dan's Max Saver, along with a mobile base, delivered and assembled at the Eastman Lake Boatbuilding shop.
Here is a photo of Anna and Nick restoring a 1969 Old Town Otka canoe with our new Powermatic bandsaw behind them.
Have you heard about our Guild Grant Program?
This year the fair began Saturday, August 4th and ends Sunday, the 12th. For us, however, it started Friday the 3rd with the set-up once again turned empty space into an amazing venue where fairgoers get to see Guild members demonstrating their woodworking skills. League of NH Craftsmen information here.
We have Guild member's work on raffle tables—this is a significant source of income to the Guild's educational mission. For each of the last several years, more than $13,000 worth of tickets were sold! You see, along with woodworking skills, we are pretty good sales people. Actually, it's an easy sell, we simply point to your donations.
This all takes place at Mount Sunapee Resort, a most beautiful setting. Guild members get to see other crafts and to visit "Living With Craft" exhibition where the Guild awards two prizes each year. See the 2018 winners here.
There was discussion about the carcass construction of our project "knife box". Pros and cons of the orientation of the carcass wood grain was thoroughly discussed as well as the joinery options. For such a "small" item discussion was large. There is much learning in this "small package". The knife box I am constructing for demo purposes is progressing well.
Gary Kokx brought in one of his beautiful knife box builds and graciously even did some disassembly so we could get a peek at the inside construction. Thank you Gary!
Additionally we viewed videos on a couple methods for lunette banding creation. One in particular was the method likely used when this banding style was originally conceived. Steve Conlin provided the audio visual hardware and videos, plus changed plans to accommodate the meeting schedule. Much appreciation Steve!
The next meeting Dec 15 will be to discuss the veneering stage of our demo knife box. This will include installing the lunette banding, purfling and marquetry for our lid. Anyone seeking information on the build may contact me.


Forget for a while the dreamy beaches with the fine sand and the crystal clear waters and make a day trip at the mountainous areas of the island. Especially for your winter holidays, Crete has to offer unique places with breathtaking views of Cretan mountains and Cretan nature!
So if you find yourself in Chania, mainly in Autumn or Winter, one of the closest destinations to the city is Therisso village in Chania, located 12 km. from the center of Chania.
From Chania city, while driving on the National Road to Kissamos, take the road to the junction of Kladissos, and follow the signs towards Therisso village. The path through the gorge, which is about 6 km., will totally respond to your expectations. The route will surely enchant you: high planes in the lush green landscape of the gorge, imposing rocky cliffs and Kladissos stream flowing next to the gorge.
The village lies at an altitude of 580 m., with the White Mountains rising imperiously just above it. It is famous for its rich history, and was the base for the fighters of the 1821 Revolution against Turks.
After about half an hour, you arrive in the square of the village where you will be greeted by the imposing statue of Eleftherios Venizelos, perhaps the most important politician of Greece. We would recommend you to start your tour with a visit to the Historical and Folklore Museum. It is housed in the building that was used as the headquarters of Eleftherios Venizelos during the Revolution against the Turks, started in 1905. A few meters further, you will find the historic mill where the Turks ground the body of a woman lived there, to punish her for her liberation struggles.
Very interesting you will find also the Museum of the National Resistance against the German conquerors. You can see and touch the cannons of that period, exhibited in the exterior of the museum, while inside, you can see photos of fighters of that period, as well as weapons and ammunition of their struggles.
Reaching at the end of your winter day trip, do not miss a traditional Cretan lunch that will give to your winter holidays a unique taste of Authentic Crete. The village is a very popular gastronomic destination to locals and visitors who love traditional food of high quality. It will be really difficult to you to choose among excellent taverns, famous for their pure meat which is cooked with the finest products of Cretan land.
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Do not miss the traditional Cretan "apaki" (smoked pork) and "siglino" (smoked pork in fat), smoked sausages, "tsigariasto", stack, fricassee with spiny chicory and fennel pies.
The cozy interior of the taverns with the traditional stone arches, the burning fireplaces, the hospitality of the owners and the excellent winter views will make you drink plenty of local wine and of course, Raki!
Posted on 13 Nov 2015 in Trip Ideas and tagged One Day Trips In Crete, Winter Holidays In Crete.