The vets struggle to take a blood sample from a pair of seals. Great video from BBC show Vets in the Wild. Visit http://www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos and watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Earth YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcearth
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Harley is late for his job interview and everything that could possibly go wrong, does. Candace, the HR Director, learns that her boyfriend is leaving her smack in the middle of her job interview. The Job Search Guy™ provides valuable interview tips so you’re always prepared!
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Legendary Record Producer Steve Lillywhite discusses American Idol.
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Anyone who has seen a surfer or skateboarder pull off a flying aerial move is amazed that a human can do such an incredible trick. Although we are all completely dumbstruck by the performance of these maneuvers, these sports often have an unfair reputation of not being truly professional. We often consider these athletes to simply be kids who have spent too much time playing around on the beach.
Surfing and Skateboarding are no longer sports dominated by athletes with talent only. These professional athletes spend many hours training. Professional surfers now spend almost as much time out of the surf, working out (often with trainers) on balance balls, with weights, and in the gym and swimming pool. They do thorough warm up sessions before going out to compete and often also have cool down routines for after a surf.
The use of scientific analysis in surfing has been long in coming. There are a number of reasons for this and I won’t give you a history of soul surfing, but the main reason is the difficulty of doing any physiological or biomechanics testing on a surfer. Because surfers do their sport in water and shifting, changing waves (size, direction, steepness…), it is very difficult to test them in the same conditions and obtain relevant scientific results.
Recently, for the first time a team of scientists joined some professional surfers in the Mentawais and recorded their paddle speed, surfing speed and heart-rate during surfing sessions. They also took blood samples to monitor lactic acid build-up and hydration data. These scientists were able to provide the surfers with some physiological and performance data which will surely help them to train better for competition.
Using video to analyze surfing is another way in which these athletes and other non-professional surfers could improve their performance. The professional surfers get lots of video of their performances from all different angles and we hope they use this information to make improvements. Of course, because of the changing waves and the 3 dimensional nature of surfing (moving up and down, forward and sideways), it is difficult to make comparisons with video.
As we looked through some of the video from the surfing trip to the Mentawais, we found one of Jordy Smith of South Africa, performing a Rodeo Clown Flip. We won’t try to describe the move here. At about the same time at a competition in the Maldives, an American surfer, Patrick Gudauskus was completeing the first ever rodeo clown in competition.
We have decided to look at both these videos and compare their performances. Jordy’s wave is the first video and then Pat’s wave is the first part of the second video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVIDlndAWhw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-udTqZS5GM&feature=player_embedded
Once you get over being completely amazed that surfers can do such things on a wave, take a closer look. The first thing you will notice is that Jordy is on a much bigger wave than Pat and this can make comparison difficult. We can still look at the technique though and we will do this in stages.
So both of these flips were spectacular and although they looked different they were actually performed with similar techniques and there is a lot to learn by analyzing the videos. Unfortunately, those of us who surf for fun and do not have sponsors, do not have too many opportunities to see ourselves in action. You can however set up a camera on a beach or get someone to film you from the beach. Try to get video looking straight out at the wave from the beach. It is difficult to analyze your performance when studying video that was filmed at an angle to the wave. It is also useful to have some sort of calibration scale that can be used to measure height (as we did in a previous post on Measuring Jump Height). Of course if you can get more than one camera setup you can really take a look at your technique from multiple views, which makes sense for a sport such as surfing. We love to hear your comments or suggestions. Let us know what you think or what you want to see posted.
Dudley Tabakin
With the bleak outlook that the media are giving to the job market in 2009, as a job search coach and resume writer, I am hoping that out of it we can finally put to rest some misconceptions that I believe have really been plaguing professionals for a while and that have a lot to do with the improper outlook many of us have in regard to our careers.
For one, I am hoping that we can finally put to rest the idea that some company will protect you and provide for you for your entire career. Personally, I don’t believe that companies should have ever been put in that position in the first place, nor should they have promised the farm to their workers (pensions for life, health care benefits for life).
Now a lot of retired workers are having to face the reality that these companies cannot deliver on these promises, and of course, these retirees are not prepared for that. And why should they be?
So certainly anyone under the age of 45 should kiss goodbye the idea that some Fortune 100 or 500 or 1000 or 10,000 is going to keep you comfortable through retirement.
Most professionals today can expect to undergo at least 4 job searches throughout their career. For some reason, when I work with job seekers, they always seem surprised to hear that. I’m not sure why because that average has been true for quite some time now.
Second, it’s been a long time in this country since small businesses (by that I mean truly small, mom-and-pop-type firms) have flourished. I look around my NY neighborhood now, and my wife and I are the only entrepreneurs out of 150 homes. I can almost segment all the people in our development into the government, health care, school district, telecommunications, and finance markets. Historically, when unemployment goes up and jobs are scarce, people get creative and small businesses form. Not all of them succeed, true, but some do.
I know what you may be thinking, “Not everyone can be an entrepreneur.” Perhaps, but when it comes to careers today, whether you open up a mom-and-pop shop or enter the corporate world, you would be wise to apply entrepreneurial principles to your career. First and foremost, an entrepreneur recognizes that to succeed, he or she must be adaptable and ahead of the curve.
Third, maybe we can finally end our overdependence on benefits in this country. With the cost of health care increasing each year, I hear more and more job seekers placing medical benefits among the top-if not the number 1-considerations of their job search. Although health care is certainly important to all of us, making it number 1 is not a good idea primarily because it causes us to become prisoners to our jobs and to these corporations who may be well meaning in regard to their benefits packages but not necessarily able to follow through when the time comes.
Fundamentally, I think that most of us just want to find a place that is comfortable, will provide for us, and will continually give us new opportunities and challenges. Again, I am not sure where this idea comes from, but when our careers don’t pan out that way and the company we hung our hat on doesn’t live up to these expectations, then we suffer major disappointment.
Maybe as Americans we are just dreamers. And we want to believe that if we just go to work and do a good job everyday, that we will receive our due. It sounds nice in theory, but if it ever really existed, it certainly does not anymore.
Personally, I think that once you get a hold of that, it frees you up to pursue so many other opportunities. So I am hoping that as we enter into 2009, we can lay aside these dreams and form new ones steeped in the reality of not just today’s job market but the job market we have really had for the last decade or so.
Stephen Van Vreede
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/before-you-write-that-resume-or-start-that-job-search-get-a-new-career-perspective-706871.html
If you wear more than one hat where your job skills are concerned you would obviously like to emphasise on the most important ones in your resume to be found suitable for a special kind of job. The Customer Services resume
is undoubtedly the most important of resumes that you could have. This kind of a resume is going to get you the best job possible, regardless of whether you have made your own resume or have had it made by a company that specialises in customer services representative resume. This resume will give you the best reference in your area of work and will be most beneficial to finding a good job.
How to write an impressive customer services resume
To write an impressive customer services resume you have to ensure that all your positive traits are highlighted in it and that the company you are applying to gets a remarkable opinion of your abilities right away. You should let the company know through your resume that you have worked in a similar position before and in companies that are highly reputed, that you have handled issues relating to this job with confidence and done a good job of it and that your educational and other qualifications enhance your abilities to do this job well. Maybe you could have references from your earlier places of work with experience letters that give you a good reference and show your work as being of a high quality. Once the new employer is convinced of your aptitude and has a favorable impression of your resume, there is nothing to hold you back from getting that super job.
The resume should fit on a single page
No employer likes to go through pages and pages of a resume with descriptions and other stuff taking up too much of his time. he would like to see it all on one page and written in a concise manner so that he can gauge your work and qualifications as well as your past experience fast. There will be several candidates applying for the same job and no employer will have the time to waste by going through long resumes. Short and sweet is what they want. This saves them their time and also lets them know what your work is going to be like in one swift glance. So if you have written long resumes, shorten it immediately without loosing the gist of the matter and the information that is very necessary.
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/customer-services-representative-how-to-write-a-resume-that-does-all-the-talking-703266.html
A message from the NH Tea Party Coalition says house Democrats have rushed the scheduling of a key gun bill hearing. They say it’s another attempt to deprive Second Amendment advocates the time to organize.
Some activists however are speculating that the rushed scheduling may simply be a result of the bill’s temporary nature.
The bill would override Dems’ use of rulemaking to “ban” guns from the state house buildings without going through any legislative process. The hearing, just announced, occurs March 8.
By the way the GOP did something similar in the 90s but has since 2006 become more constructive on the issue.
Details:
http://forum.nhliberty.org/index.php?topic=2883.msg22368#msg22368
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The Samples featuring Mike Montrey and Erin Sax Seymour performing “Did You Ever Look So Nice” on the radio show “Songs From the Alchemist’s Playground”, found online at www.myspace.com/alchemistplayground. “Songs from the Alchemist’s Playground” with hosts Eric G. and Tony Blass broadcasts live every Saturday night at 9 PM PST from the American Radio Network studios on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood on KCLA-FM 99.3 in Los Angeles or streaming on the Internet at www.kclafm.com, playing everything from Hip Hop to Electronica to Jazz featuring the best artists in rock, pop, lounge and dance. Special thanks to Kathy Falcey at tunes2ya.com for coordinating this interview. Camera: Sadie Blass
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