Turkish Cypriot teams were involved in the founding of the Cypriot FA in 1934 but withdrew from the island's unified league in 1955 after hostilities against Turkish Cypriot communities worsened.
World football's governing body FIFA has offered an interim deal to the Turkish Cypriot Football Association that could allow Turkish Cypriot teams to stage friendly international matches.
FIFA and its European counterpart UEFA announced on Thursday that an offer had been made following a meeting with the Turkish Cypriot FA (CTFA) "with a view to improving relations between the football communities on the island of Cyprus".
FIFA did not disclose any further details but CTFA chairman Omer Adali told Reuters the proposal would allow friendly matches to be played against foreign teams as well as sides from the Greek Cypriot part of the divided island.
"This is an interim measure prior to a solution to the Cyprus problem," Adali told Reuters by telephone.
"To play in formal competitions you have to be a member of FIFA. The only way would be to join the Greek Cypriot league, but we are not willing to do this. Therefore we would only be able to play friendly matches under this proposal."
The offer still has to be accepted by CTFA and Adali said this would "not be an easy decision".
Turkish Cypriot teams and players have since been unable to participate in official international matches.
FIFA's articles only allow associations from independent states "recognised by the international community" to become members and accepts only one association for each country.
The Turkish Cypriot FA has rejected calls to join the Greek Cypriot FA, because the body does not represent their region.


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By the 1960s, Budge and others had added Pancho Gonzales and Lew Hoad to the list of contenders. Budge reportedly believed that Gonzales was the greatest player ever.[99] Gonzales said about Hoad, "When Lew's game was at its peak nobody could touch him. ... I think his game was the best game ever. Better than mine. He was capable of making more shots than anybody. His two volleys were great. His overhead was enormous. He had the most natural tennis mind with the most natural tennis physique."[100]
Never let it be said that tennis is not a manly game. Sure, there isn't a lot of bone crunching going on, but there is Maria Sharapova and Daniela Hantuchova grunting and groaning the day away, which you can't beat no matter how nice your stick is. Long maligned as a game for pale hemophiliacs in white shorts, tennis has come back in a big way and if you aren't ready to play with some knowledge of the game and a good tennis racket you're going to miss the bus. That's why we're here.
Tournaments are often organized by gender and number of players. Common tournament configurations include men's singles, women's singles, and doubles, where two players play on each side of the net. Tournaments may be organized for specific age groups, with upper age limits for youth and lower age limits for senior players. Example of this include the Orange Bowl and Les Petits As junior tournaments. There are also tournaments for players with disabilities, such as wheelchair tennis and deaf tennis.[81] In the four Grand Slam tournaments, the singles draws are limited to 128 players for each gender.
Here is another racquet on our list from the very good tennis racquet manufacturer Babolat. Rest assured that any company that puts more than one tennis racquet on our top review list is a company that knows how to build tennis racquets the right way. This racquet is comfortable to use, helps you control the ball when you strike it and also will add a little power to your game.
As you are looking at tennis racquets in the store or shopping online it is important to note the head size of any racquet you are thinking about purchasing too. It stands to reason that the bigger the head is on your tennis racquet the bigger the sweet spot on it is also. A bigger sweet spot means you a less prone to mishitting the ball when you go to return it. Just be careful the head size is so big it adds extra weight or it throws off your game because you are not used to it.
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But would if it's a doubles game? How do I learn to play tennis then, you wonder?! Who serves? With doubles, the serving position rotates across teams and partners. For instance, if team partners A and B were playing doubles with team partners C and D, partner A would serve first and then it would rotate to partner C and then back to partner B and finally to partner D.
Points are counted using ordinary numbering. The set is won by the player who has scored at least seven points in the tiebreak and at least two points more than their opponent. For example, if the score is 6 points to 5 and the player with 6 points wins the next point, they win the tiebreak (7 points to 5), as well as the set (7 games to 6). If the player with 5 points wins the point instead (for a score of 6–6), the tiebreak continues and cannot be won on the next point (7–6 or 6–7), since no player will be two points ahead. In the scoring of the set, sometimes the tiebreak points are shown as well as the game count, e.g., 710–68. Another way of listing the score of the tiebreak is to list only the loser's points. For example, if the set score is listed as 7–6(8), the tiebreak score was 10–8 (since the 8 is the loser's score, and the winner must win by two points). Similarly, 7–6(3) means the tiebreak score was 7–3.
A great way of understanding this shot is by observing different professional tennis players who are good at different things. I find that you can learn tennis pretty fast by visualization. For example, Novak Djokovic, currently ranked as the number one tennis player in the world is famous for his flat forehand and backhand. Caroline Wozniacki, currently ranked as the best female tennis player is admired worldwide for her two-handed backhand. Observe such players and practice as much as you can so that you can play tennis to the best of your abilities!
The tiebreaker – more recently shortened to just "tiebreak", though both terms are still used interchangeably – was invented by James Van Alen and unveiled in 1965 as an experiment at the pro tournament he sponsored at Newport Casino, Rhode Island,[23] after an earlier, unsuccessful attempt to speed up the game by the use of his so-called "Van Alen Streamlined Scoring System" ("VASSS"). For two years before the Open Era, in 1955 and 1956, the United States Pro Championship in Cleveland, Ohio, was played by VASSS rules. The scoring was the same as that in table tennis, with sets played to 21 points and players alternating five services, with no second service. The rules were created partially to limit the effectiveness of the powerful service of the reigning professional champion, Pancho Gonzales. Even with the new rules, however, Gonzales beat Pancho Segura in the finals of both tournaments. Even though the 1955 match went to 5 sets, with Gonzales barely holding on to win the last one 21–19, it is reported to have taken 47 minutes to complete.[24] The fans attending the matches preferred the traditional rules, however, and in 1957 the tournament reverted to the old method of scoring.
Vibration dampeners (also sometimes known as "gummies") may be interlaced in the proximal part of the string array, to reduce the percussive sound of the ball hitting the strings and/or to reduce perceived vibration. They do not, however, reduce impact shock significantly, so they are of no safety value.[13] Some professionals, such as Andrei Agassi, used rubber bands instead of specialized dampeners. Dampeners come in two main types. The first uses the two central main strings to hold it in place. The second is sometimes called a "worm" and it is woven between many of the main strings. Dampeners are nearly always placed very near the bottom of the racket string bed.
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The best marks for this racquet were awarded to the services on which the racquet split the air with power on contact to allow them to reach their targets. However, the EZONE 98 (305 g) will not suit everyone. Some players will enjoy the more damped feel of the DR, while others will prefer the firmer, more powerful response offered by this new version.
A denser pattern is often considered to deliver more control, at the expense of spin potential. A more open pattern is often believed to offer greater potential for power and spin. However, how much power is produced by a player can be strongly influenced by how a player adapts to the characteristics of the racket. Some players may hit harder with a dense string pattern, producing faster shots because of the added control from the dense pattern. Rackets, including those of much of the wood era, are marked with a recommended string tension range. The basic rule is that a lower tension creates more power (from the trampoline effect) and a higher string tension creates more control (less string deformation which results in a more predictable the power and angle of the departure from the string bed.) Some professionals used small-headed rackets with flexible-material strings (natural gut) strung at very high tension. Examples include Pete Sampras and Björn Borg. Some used large-headed rackets with very inflexible-material strings (kevlar). Andrei Agassi is an example. Many professionals during the standard wood era strung at relatively low tension and used natural gut string; both decisions were to increase the trampoline effect for more power. By contrast, almost every professional player today uses the much stiffer polyester string in their much stiffer rackets which also have larger heads and which tend to be lighter. Madeline Hauptman sold a line of rackets, called the MAD RAQ, which featured a Star of David pattern (a six-pointed figure consisting of two interlaced equilateral triangles), as it used three strings instead of two for stringing the racket. This pattern is used in snowshoes. This stringing pattern was said to feature less string notching, improving string lifespan. It was even claimed that many pro shops refused to carry the racket because less string breakage would reduce string and stringing service sales. It has also been claimed that the racket is more difficult to string than a two string racket. However, the Wilson T-2000-type requires a great deal more time for stringing than a typical racket and rackets of that series were very popular. Whatever the cause of the failure of the MAD RAQ in the marketplace, it was the only time a snowshoe pattern was used in tennis. Hauptman switched her racket line to a two string diamond pattern (PowerAngle). This pattern had already been used in much earlier rackets but had not had much popularity. It is said to be easier to string than the MAD RAQ but does not have the benefit of reduced string notching, at least not to the same degree. The claim is that this diagonal pattern offers more comfort than a traditional square pattern.
Simply put, kids combine the technical analytical instruction with their desire to be comfortable (which is nothing else than the body's signal of telling you what is a natural way of generating force), while adults do everything in their power to perform the movement "correctly," even when it doesn't feel comfortable and it doesn't produce any natural force.
Focus on ball trajectory and how cleanly you hit the ball – this will then allow your brain to merge the technical instruction you've been working on with the natural way of movement that creates effortless power – and eventually sound tennis techniques will emerge that simultaneously produce a lot of effortless power and allow easy adjustments to different situations in the game.
A popular alternative to advantage scoring is "no-advantage" (or "no-ad") scoring, created by James Van Alen in order to shorten match playing time.[12] No-advantage scoring is a scoring method in which the first player to reach four points wins the game. No-ad scoring eliminates the requirement that a player must win by two points. Therefore, if the game is tied at deuce, the next player to win a point wins the game. This method of scoring is used in most World TeamTennis matches.[13][14] When this style of play is implemented, at deuce, the receiver then chooses from which side of the court he or she desires to return the serve. However, in no-ad mixed doubles play gender always serves to the same gender at game point and during the final point of tiebreaks.[15]
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Kolkmann says that asphalt courts can also develop low areas over time due to settling of the soil or base under the asphalt surface. "With a post-tensioned slab, this area can be bridged and no settling will occur. In addition, concrete courts can often be installed on unstable soils where it would be cost-prohibitive to do extensive excavating and base work to support an asphalt court," he says.
The string pattern of a tennis racquet plays a large part in how the ball is hit and what it does after impact. Racquets are typically strung in a grid with patterns of 16 by 18, 16 by 19, and 18 by 20. The first two options allow for a more open string pattern whereas the second pattern has strings that are more closely packed together, creating a variety of differences in how the ball reacts when hit. The type of racquet that you should choose largely depends on your tennis goals:
If you have played the game of tennis long enough you know that the highest wear item on your racquet by far is your grip. Not only is subject to constant wear and tear by changing hand positions and by sliding your hands into position on it, but it also rubs on the court surface on occasion and is exposed to sweat and the elements too. It's no wonder these have to be replaced very often on a tennis racquet.
The fourth Babolat tennis racquet on our top review list is also one of their more affordable models. Just don't make the mistake of taking it as meaning this tennis racquet is not a good one. It is an excellent model for novice and intermediate level players. It is also a racquet that favors those players that prefer to use more power than finesse when playing the game of tennis.
In most professional play and some amateur competition, there is an officiating head judge or chair umpire (usually referred to as the umpire), who sits in a raised chair to one side of the court. The umpire has absolute authority to make factual determinations. The umpire may be assisted by line judges, who determine whether the ball has landed within the required part of the court and who also call foot faults. There also may be a net judge who determines whether the ball has touched the net during service. The umpire has the right to overrule a line judge or a net judge if the umpire is sure that a clear mistake has been made.[59]
Your swing style is another important factor to consider when shopping for tennis racquets. If you have a fast and long swing, you are likely able to provide all the power you need and may want to consider a racquet with a mid or mid-plus head, which can help you control your shot. If you have a shorter and slower swing, an oversized racquet head may be a better choice as it can increase the power of your shot.
The impetus to use some kind of a tie-breaking procedure gained force after a monumental 1969 struggle at Wimbledon between Pancho Gonzales and Charlie Pasarell. This was a 5-set match that lasted five hours and 12 minutes and took 2 days to complete. In the fifth set the 41-year-old Gonzales won all seven match points that Pasarell had against him, twice coming back from 0–40 deficits. The final score was 22–24, 1–6, 16–14, 6–3, 11–9 for Gonzales.
A tennis match is composed of points, games, and sets. A set consists of a number of games (a minimum of six), which in turn each consist of points. A set is won by the first side to win 6 games, with a margin of at least 2 games over the other side (e.g. 6–3 or 7–5). If the set is tied at six games each, a tie-break is usually played to decide the set. A match is won when a player or a doubles team has won the majority of the prescribed number of sets. Matches employ either a best-of-three (first to two sets wins) or best-of-five (first to three sets wins) set format. The best-of-five set format is usually only used in the men's singles or doubles matches at Grand Slam and Davis Cup matches.
I've spent years in attempts to understand tennis techniques and secrets that few people ever learn in tennis lessons. Most competitive junior tennis players have the privilege of time and money to develop and learn tennis techniques, but maybe you don't. Tennis techniques are an important part for every tennis player and even small changes in tennis technique can result in big improvements.
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This discussion is very timely for me because not only is it helping me stabilize my game, my daughter is now six and showing interest in "Playing tennis." When she was four and five that meant catching and sweeping the ball along the floor with a racket back and forth with me, and now it means gripping the child' racket her aunt brought her with both hands and hitting FH on the soft coach's ball I toss or hit softly to her. She is a natural leftie, and I showed her a LH grip with two hands, but often she uses the RH backhand grip instead, and I just let her go with it. What is amazing to me is how good her balance is and how well she steps in and rotates through the stroke, pulling the racket through. She is already an accomplished dancer and seems to understand how her body moves, and that clearly helps, but her synthesis of gripping, which she was taught, swinging, which she imitates, and rotating with balance is just natural.
Nearly one hundred years after its construction, the Royal Tennis Court became symbolic of the brewing French Revolution. On 20 June 1789, the deputies of the Third Estate met there at the time of the Estates General, since the Menus-Plaisirs hotel, their usual meeting place, had been closed by order of the king. On that day, they took an oath not to separate until they had endowed France with a written constitution. This founding scene was immortalised by the painter Jacques-Louis David in a grand fresco, sadly unfinished, called The Tennis Court Oath, which joined the Palace collections in 1921.
In 1926, promoter C. C. Pyle established the first professional tennis tour with a group of American and French tennis players playing exhibition matches to paying audiences.[26][37] The most notable of these early professionals were the American Vinnie Richards and the Frenchwoman Suzanne Lenglen.[26][38] Once a player turned pro he or she was no longer permitted to compete in the major (amateur) tournaments.[26]

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The numbers weren't that bad, although they missed Wall Street projections and indicated that technology solutions sales, which rose 12 percent year-over-year on a reported basis, are weakening in all geographic sectors on a pro forma basis. Roy Vallee, chairman and CEO, noted that the revenue slowdown in technology is "more pronounced" than in the company's Electronics Marketing group. He pledged further "corrective actions" if needed.Avnet's stock fell on the news.
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Speaker: Dr. Jonathan L. Temte '80, Associate Dean for Public Health and Community Engagement at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
"The Pathway to Pandemic's End"
Temte will provide a brief history of pandemics and vaccines, setting the stage for discussion of the importance of vaccines for control of infectious diseases. The accelerated development of Covid-19 vaccines will be reviewed with emphasis on understanding the processes for assessment of safety and efficacy. He will also discuss the approaches used to allocate scarce vaccine supplies using a framework of science, ethics, and feasibility. Temte will end his presentation with a projection of the end of the pandemic and its aftermath.
Jonathan Temte is associate dean for public health and community engagement at the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Temte is an expert in vaccine and immunization policy who sat on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for eight years and is currently a member of the ACIP Covid-19 Vaccine Work Group, a panel that will help inform the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determine how a Covid-19 vaccine will be deployed.
Temte has dedicated his career to creating connections between primary care medicine and public health practice. A professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and a family medicine physician at the Access Community Health Centers, Temte has served as a clinician, teacher, and researcher for over 25 years. Temte holds the following degrees: Ph.D., Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.S., Oceanography, Oregon State University; B.A., Biology, Luther College.
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Charles Mraz, an inventive beekeeper who since the 1930's had been the country's leading evangelist for the therapeutic use of bee stings, a still unproven treatment, died on Monday at his home in Middlebury, Vt. He was 94.
Mr. Mraz was widely known among beekeepers for developing a hardy strain of bees well suited to survive in the chilly Champlain Valley in Vermont and for figuring out how to get cranky bees safely out of the way so honey could be harvested more easily.
But many thousands of people with chronic diseases knew him for his campaign to have bee venom and other bee products accepted as medical therapies in the United States -- a quest that began when he deliberately bared his own arthritic knees for bee stings. His proselytizing prompted people from all over the world to seek his advice on treatment.
''Letters mailed to The Bee Man, Middlebury, Vt., would make it to his house,'' said Mitchell Kurker, his son-in-law.
A federally supervised clinical trial of the safety of such treatments is only now being undertaken.
For decades, many sick people made pilgrimages to Middlebury for bee sting therapy, for which Mr. Mraz never charged. He would pluck bee after bee from a jar, holding each one with forceps as it sank its stinger into the visitor's skin, then crushing the mortally wounded bee.
Mr. Mraz was convinced that the venom in bee stings could relieve the symptoms of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis by, among other things, triggering an anti-inflammatory response. Though that idea is not accepted by a vast majority of doctors, many people with such diseases heard his message and came to believe that it offered them hope.
Now the treatment could be moving closer to respectability. In a few weeks, the first clinical study of bee venom injections under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration will begin at Georgetown University. The research is sponsored by the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, based in Cherry Hill, N.J. The yearlong study will examine safety; if the treatment clears that hurdle, the next step will be to find out whether it works.
Mr. Mraz tried to encourage research during the decades he promoted bee sting therapy. He was a founding member and a director of the American Apitherapy Society, which was set up in 1998 to promote research and education. And he helped any researcher who asked.
Mr. Mraz was enthralled by bees at an early age. He was born on July 26, 1905, in Queens and set up his first beehives at age 14, while he still lived in the city. After working for other beekeepers in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he moved to Middlebury in 1928 and started Champlain Valley Apiaries in 1931.
His beekeeping business became one of the largest in New England. At one point, he had a thousand bee colonies, each with a population of 30,000 to 60,000. He ran the business for more than 60 years, until he turned it over to his son William.
That technique is now widely used, and it brought Mr. Mraz an award from the American Beekeeping Federation in 1992.
He also designed new kinds of equipment for processing honey, Dr. Morse said.
His passion for what came to be called apitherapy came when painful arthritis threatened his ability to do the heavy work around an apiary.
Mr. Mraz described the episode in his book, ''Health and the Honeybee,'' which was published in 1995 by Honeybee Health Products, owned by his daughter Michelle Mraz and her husband, Mr. Kurker.
He had heard about bee sting therapy as a folk remedy in many cultures but initially considered that ''an old wives' tale,'' Mr. Kurker said. But the pain drove him to try bee stings on both knees.
'' 'I wonder if there is anything to that damned nonsense about bee stings for arthritis,' '' Mr. Mraz thought, according to his book.
His second patient was not long in coming. A neighbor had arthritic hands that were bringing tears to his eyes during the twice-a-day milking on his dairy farm, and Mr. Mraz offered to help, he wrote. After a regimen of bee stings over several weeks, the dairy farmer's hands opened and closed easily and were no longer swollen, Mr. Mraz said.
He said he had become more confident about the bee sting technique when he found out that a doctor in midtown Manhattan, Dr. Bodog F. Beck, was using the same therapy. Mr. Mraz visited Dr. Beck's office, which had a beehive on the windowsill. The bees flew to Central Park for pollen, Mr. Mraz said, and Dr. Beck used them to sting patients.
As an expert on beekeeping techniques, Mr. Mraz lectured and consulted all over the world, especially in Mexico, and he frequently published in industry journals. At the same time, he spread the word about bee venom therapy, undeterred by the resistance he encountered.
''Most people would look at me as if I was some kind of nut,'' he wrote. Mr. Mraz also promoted what he contended were the medicinal effects of honey, pollen, royal jelly and a bee resin called propolis.
He considered stings from living bees superior to injections of purified bee venom, although he would provide the venom to researchers if they wished. Some multiple sclerosis patients treat themselves with dozens of stings a day.
Besides Michelle Mraz, of Burlington, Vt., Mr. Mraz is survived by his wife, Pamela. His first wife, Letitia, died in 1948, and his second wife, Margaret, died in 1992. Other survivors include his daughters, Marna Ehreck of Shelburne, Vt., and Laurie Zwaan of Exeter, N.H.; his sons, William, of Middlebury, and Charles, of Destin, Fla.; 13 grandchildren, and 7 great-grandchildren.
While Mr. Mraz started cutting down on his work at his apiary in the 1980's, he remained an active proponent and practitioner of apitherapy for the rest of his life.


LES did a fantastic job with this plane once again. This aircraft was reborn with this update. The flight model is amazing, the power is just right, truly a fantastic aircraft. Only thing I have noticed is the stretched out sound when you raise and lower the stairs. Besides that no complaints at all.


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How Smoking Damages Mind as Well as Body
Tom Heffernan AND Annemarie Hirsch
On 11/26/16 at 5:04 AM EST
A tourist smokes a cigarette in Valletta, Malta, November 13. Smoking has deleterious effects on the mind as well as the body. Darrin Zammit Lupi/REUTERS
Opinion Smoking Memory Learning Body
A middle-aged cigarette smoker who has smoked for decades is two to three times more likely to die early than someone similar who has never smoked. Tobacco smoking is well known to be a major risk factor for various cancers, lung and cardiovascular problems, and is also linked to other health problems, such as complications in pregnancy, low sperm count in men, oral problems, and increased likelihood of cataracts.
Little wonder then that the World Health Organization (WHO) sees tobacco smoking as the number one avoidable cause of death in the world. U.S. statistics reveal that smoking causes more deaths each year than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol misuse, motor vehicle injuries and homicides combined. Similar comparisons can be found in U.K. statistics.
However, while there can be few today who are unaware of the toll smoking takes on the body, the effects of long-term tobacco smoking on other areas such as learning and memory are less well known.
Although some studies have shown that the nicotine in cigarettes can improve concentration and attention (making smokers feel more alert), there's more to cigarettes than just nicotine. They contain over 4,000 chemicals—over 50 of which are known to be toxic in nature: the carbon monoxide also found in car exhaust fumes, butane found in lighter fluid, and arsenic, ammonia, and methanol found in rocket fuel, for example.
What's in your cigarette? Author provided
It's thought that a long-term build-up of these toxic chemicals can damage the brain, leading to deficits in learning and memory. Long-term smoking has been linked with reductions in working memory, prospective memory—that used for everyday tasks such as keeping an appointment or taking medication on time—and executive function, which helps us plan tasks, pay attention to current activities, and ignore distractions. These three underpin our everyday ability to remember and learn, without which independent living would be much more difficult.
In the first study of its kind, our team of researchers from Northumbria University reported in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry our findings that those who smoke and drink heavily show greater deficits in their everyday prospective memory. More so, in fact, than those who smoke but do not drink heavily and those who drink heavily but do not smoke combined. This suggests there's a "double whammy" effect to combining smoking and drinking.
Recent studies of smoking-related health problems and memory deficits has included the effects of "second-hand" or "passive" smoking, where non-smokers inhale tobacco smoke from smokers. Research here has found the same range of health-related problems linked to passive smoking as found in smokers, including lung and cardiovascular disease and cognitive and memory problems. These could affect a passive smoker in a number of spheres of life, not just health but educational and occupational, given the universal requirement and use for everyday remembering.
Quitting smoking improves health and leads to improvements in cognition. This may be linked to an increase in the thickness of the brain's cortex—the outer layer of the brain that plays a critical role in information processing and memory. The cortex naturally thins with age, but smoking can worsen this effect causing the cortex to thin at an accelerated rate.
Stopping smoking can help partially to reverse this effect on the cortex, but not to the levels found in a non-smoker. Traditional methods of quitting smoking have focused on nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), such as nicotine chewing gum, patches, inhalators and nasal sprays. This typically takes around eight to 12 weeks before producing demonstrable health improvements.
An increasingly popular form of NRT is the e-cigarette: a battery-powered electronic nicotine delivery device resembling a cigarette that does not contain tobacco. The use of e-cigarettes over smoking tobacco recently has been found to improve everyday prospective memory (memory for future activities), but we presently know little about what long-term impact e-cigarettes may have upon health, mood and cognitive functions.
Tom Heffernan is programme leader in psychology with criminology at Northumbria University in Newcastle and Anna-Marie Marshall is a PhD researcher and demonstrator at Northumbria University in Newcastle.
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My primary presentation at AEA focused collaborating with stakeholders for novice evaluators. It's always a pleasure to present at the annual American Evaluation Association conference, and it seems to get better every year. This year, our team had a total of 4 presentations and a poster. While its always fun to see what others in the field are doing, there is nothing quite like disseminating information. It was wonderful to see so many new evaluators in the audience and we had some great discussion.
My goal during the presentation was to highlight collaboration as the customer service component of evaluation while also recognizing the importance of involving multiple groups that have a stake a given program. I think it's important to communicate the importance of stakeholder involvement to young evaluators because collaboration and shared understanding are essential in building long lasting relationships with clients. Although working with stakeholders is a skill set that we as evaluators develop over time there are a few fundamental tips and tricks to help get us started. Considering we had so many first-time attendees this year, I think its worth developing content for young evaluators.


Native Americans believed that taking a photo of them would steal their souls. In this project, I tried to imagine a world where the loss of self due to exposure to photography is a physical fact. If you think about it, it not so far fetched after all. Just look at the media's hunger for sensation, celebrities and gossip. A certain kind of press worker/photographer has been compared to a piranha before and people have often felt violated by their aggressive media vampirism.
The title is a play on the double meaning of the word overexposed. Of course for us photographers it means exposing your sensor (or film) too long to light, resulting in a washed out analog photo or blotchy white blobs in digital photography. But it could also mean the way we are exposed to our social environment, other people, criticism and scrutiny, etc. Overexposure in that sense can also lead to a sense of emptiness, feelings of inadequacy and loss of identity and self-worth.
I am sitting behind a short (low) coffee table with a laptop to my right from which I trigger the Hasselblad H4D-31 using the Phocus software. Luckily, there is a slight delay between pressing the "Capture" button and the shutter release, so I can get into position. Behind me are two large V-banks, for which I've written a do-it-yourself blog post recently. The model camera in my hand is my trusty old Canon 5D mark II, a piece of my soul on its own. Sadly, since I got the 6D, I hardly ever shoot with the 5D mark II anymore, so I thought it deserved a little time in the spotlight.
There are three studio strobes in place, all Elinchrome D-Lites.
(Mainlight) medium octa in front and above, mounted to a boom. No Grid.
This is my first "official" picture with a digital medium format camera. And there are multiple reasons why I love it. X-Sync Speed of 1/500s and up, can go as high as 1/800s in the right conditions. The look of the images, not just the colors but this wide, illustrative look. Dislikes: Heavy, ISO goes beyond 100, but you shouldn't use it and of course a crinchworthy investment. Eventhough it's the smallest of the H4D series, the files are still huge (coming from a 20.1 MP 6D). My Photoshop crashed like 5 times because it couldn't handle the 40 layers needed for this composition. I have to rethink my workflow a little bit for this one. A bit more systematic and controlled. Which in the end is a good think anyway :).
Removed facial features with a mixture of Content Aware Fill, Cloning and lots of dodging an burning to even out the irregular luminosities created by the cloning.
Created a PS action to agen the faces: New 50% gray layer in Overlay blending mode. Added monochromatic noise, Remove Scratches, motion blur, vignetting, save as tiff, close file.
Used the align and distribute feature in PS to place the fotos on the background, but then manually changed some of the angles. Created drop shadows for all face-portraits. Applied a lens blur on all background photos to separate them from the faceless me in the front.
Created a beam of light using a curve adjustment and painted mask.
Here is the link to the final photo (down-sized to 20%, because it would have been a 17 MB JPG).


Picked up another Tamiya the other day, very nice shape so I can have an outside car and a squeeky clean indoor car.
This will be a nostalgic 60's race car, with a few simple tire/suspension changes will be capable of doing a bit of Auto cross, some drifting and a good allround thrashing.
A paint scheme like this...aged too!
Getting the diffs together, the front 1 way is assembled and the rear is stock. A fully locked rear setup should be here for the end of the week.
Should get it wrapped up tomorrow night.
I have a few bodies to spray and would like to get this one mounted up....More later!
thats it? thata all you got dont tonight, man you are weak!!
so your taking your time like always.. looks like a nice kit so far.
Before getting back to the FJ project tomorrow I messed with the on road stuff a bit.
Stang body came in and a few more sets of wheels. The front wheels need to be modified, another set of 6mm offsets (like the rear) will be narrowed to get the proper offset.
The rear bumper is moulded seperate on this, should be getting it together today.
Will get to th eexaust and other stuff tomorrow, waiting for the LEDs for inside the exaust, brake disks.
Sweet.Is it gonna get a interior too?
Just got these in today and I'm thinking maybe I'll use one in this but was just planning on the M Beetle driver and the nostalgic beanie helmet...who know's what tomorrow brings?
More stuff in today...my favorite...Aluminum disks, look so much cooler then plastic!
I love those discs, do they chance your offset? The plastic tamiya ones I had pushed my wheels out further, so it didnt work with my project.
Where did you pick up those Aluminum disks brakes? Are those the one from the UK?
The build is looking insane, keep up the great work.
Disks don't change the offset, just replace the stock hex.
They're another 3Racing product...about $20...nice detail.
Well the final push this afternoon...got my gold connectors soldered in and all of the electronics hooked up.
Body's close enough, I'm sure the guys will help with the authentic rubber swirls and scratches tomorrow.
I'm pretty sure these tires will be to fast for what I'm used to so I've got a second set of wheels and tires (MattC compound) for testing in the underground.
Thanks for wathing and the nice comments guys!
For the first time out with the car it worked pretty good. Needs some adjustment, especially the brake and suspension (forgot to fill the shocks up with oil). Needs CVDs bad...stock shafts are a problem.
It looks wicked drifting, can't wait till the Vette body comes out to do another Muscle Car build.
The HPI nostalgic Drift Tires are way to sticky for the tight course but cool for some high speed slides.
I ended up running a set of HPI wheels and MattC tires and it worked and looked even better.
Just finishing up th eexhaust and am breaking down and adding lights and a driver.
Did you manage to get any damage/dings to the body? I would really like to see it and see how the different layers of paint made it look with scratches and rubs.
Got a few small scratches, bumpers and a few tiny ones down the side.
Works pretty good, those guys weren't nearly as dangerous as they made them self out to be. What made it look best was all of the dust and road gunk.
I'll get a few more pics as I complete the detail stuff.
A few shots playin around today, shows a few scratches ...more of those to come!
My favorite shot so far!
Next it's back into the shop to fit the lights and scale stuff.
Had this back out in the shop and should be wrapping up the details over the next week or so.
Nice, I really like that exhaust tip...what is it?
You have so many projects on the go, how do you remember to update them all? M must find the house some quiet while you are out working on the projects eh?
They accept the 5mm LED perfect for the exhaust glow lights...looks so cool when you hit the throttle!!!
My favorite part is when you blip the throttle quick they light up kinda like a backfire.
Got the driver in so it's pretty much just mechanical stuff left.
What an awesome looking machine, man you have one of the best collections to date i bet,,the lights look awesome also on it..wow.
Thanks Joe...this is one of my favorite cars to date....tomorrow morning I'm tossing the Lipo in and put the stickier tires on and going to the parking lot before it gets to hot.
You'd be surprised I usually only run a float of about 5 cars....buy and sell so much it's hard to gather a collection around here!
Same here, I liked the exhaust before I knew light went in them :Wow1: that looks so cool.
Forgot to snap a pick of the driver the other day and thought I'd add it.
Shocks and CVD's next and put the other tires on for a bit more grip now that it's in Lipo mode!
I've got 3 more drifters and a special on-road car planned for this winter, stay tuned for pics and some new threads!


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Palmers Put The Hammer Down To Claim National Championship and History!
FARMERVILLE, LA — When there is $30,000 on the line and the title of Crappie Masters National Champions up for grabs, faulty equipment is the last thing you want! However, in the case of the father/son, HH Rod and Reels team of TJ and Alex Palmer it was exactly what they needed to move up a spot after day one and claim their first Crappie Masters National Championship and a piece of history, becoming the first Adult/Youth team (in the final season they qualify in that division) to take home the crown with a two-day weight of 24.66 pounds.
That weight was good enough to hold off the hard-charging teams of Clay Gann and Todd Froebe along with now past National Champion Eric Cagle, and overtaking day one leaders Richard Bowling and Gary Lee, who eventually slipped to 4th place in the final standings at the 2021 Crappie Masters National Championship.
This tournament was held September 24-25 on Lake D'Arbonne in Farmerville, Louisiana and hosted by the Union Parish Tourist Commission, Union Parish Chamber of Commerce, City of Farmerville, Union Parish Police Jury, and the Louisiana Office of Tourism.
In retrospect, for the team of TJ and Alex Palmer from Missouri, a huge part of their destiny to become National Champions occurred on day one simply because of faulty scales in their boat. The team, like many, struggled to get the bigger fish to bite, covering lots of water to even find them and not having much luck.
That was until 11:36 in the morning on day one when TJ saw what they knew was a huge fish on their graph and got the fish to bite. Immediately, Alex grabbed the net and brought in a huge 2.55-pound crappie, which would eventually become the big fish of the tournament good for an additional $2,000, and be a huge part in the difference between them and the rest of the field.
Knowing how hard the bite had been and what a difference a fish like this would make, the team decided to put their nose to the grindstone and really focus and fish hard paying attention to every detail, which eventually was one of their stated keys to victory.
The Palmers wound up in 2nd place after day one and knew the opportunity was there, however, National Championship Saturday didn't hold the one kicker fish they wanted and the team frankly thought they had lost the tournament seeing the weights come in ahead of them and what they thought Bowling and Lee had behind them.
Again, their faulty scales were wrong and in the end the team won by .28 pounds narrowly claiming not only the overall Crappie Master National Championship, but also the Adult/Youth National Championship, plus Big Fish of the tournament.
TJ and Alex said they covered nearly 10 miles of water, catching their fish targeting the channel edges and mainly using Alex's Palmer Custom Baits in the blue and chartreuse single tail tipped with minnows, B's hair jigs tied by competitor Brandon Threadgill, Muddy Water Baits, and Timmy Tom's jig heads, all on the HH Rods and Reels Eric Cagle Signature Series Dock Shooter Rods.
The team collected $30,000 for the win, $2,000 for having Big Fish of the tournament, the Missouri Corn Merchandising Council/American Ethanol $2,000 dollar E10 bonus for using E10 fuel, $200 for using HH Rods and Reels, and $100 for catching the big fish on a Timmy Tom's Jig Head for a total of $34,300, along with numerous prizes for being the top placing adult/youth team, and their first Crappie Masters National Championship.
Finishing a close second was the Texas team of Clay Gann and Todd Froebe with 24.38 pounds taking home $12,000.
Settling in third place was last year's Crappie Masters National Champion Eric Cagle with a two-day weight of 24.28 pounds, just missing out on another title. Cagle walked away with a check for $6,200.
4th place money went to day one leaders Richard Bowling and Gary Lee, who never found the big fish they needed on day two to seal the deal on their first National Championship after coming close in previous years, yet still took home $5,000 with a weight of 24.09 pounds.
Rounding out the top 5 was the team of Wes Barmore and Mark Theodus, who were the first team to sit in the Millennium Marine Hot Seats based on a two-day weight of 23.84 pounds and $4,400.
Crappie Masters 2021 Male/Female National Champions honors went to the Bass Tank team of Richard and Ashley Faulk from Oklahoma.
A new addition to this year's National Championship came compliments of some outstanding local businesses who put up $1,000 cash prizes for teams that finished in 40th, 50th, 60th, and 75th place along with a $500 dollar prize for the team that placed 100th out of the 139 that took part. A huge thanks to the businesses who contributed to this great incentive:
K & M Coffee, Corks, and Camo
Weigh In site, Rhett's Tails and Shells
Ludwig Marine
Origin Bank
Cooter's Bait and Tackle
Crappie Masters would like to thank all the local sponsors for making the 2021 National Championship one for the record books, and can't wait to be back on Lake D'Arbonne in Farmerville, Louisiana in 2022.
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Boys Suffers From Fractured Skull After Serious Accident
Skull Fracture Accident in Normandy Park, WA
A woman was just charged with reckless endangerment after a serious accident occurred on August 26, 2011. She was driving her SUV and allegedly told her son and two friends to ride on her back bumper, causing one of the boys to fall off the vehicle and fracture his skull.
The 49-year-old Normandy Park resident Carmen Duncanson was driving down her very long and steep private driveway when her 13-year-old son and two of his friends (who are brothers) stood on the rear bumper.
"As she drove, she swerved, as if to make the ride more fun for the boys," Normandy Park police officer Brian Morris said. One of the boys told officers that Duncanson "punched the gas to about 20 m.p.h."
One of the boys hit his head and the other suffered from serious road rash.
Once the boys fell off the car, the mother stopped the vehicle and she and her husband brought the boys into their house. Initially, they did not call 911 and attempted to treat their injuries on their own. Ten minutes later, they brought the boys to Highline Hospital in their SUV.
The boy that hit his head was taken to Harborview Medical Center with two skull fractures and declared to be in critical condition. He immediately went into surgery at Harborview to remove a hematoma, where he stayed for 6 nights. Doctors put 43 staples in his heads and he was ordered to avoid contacts sports for 1 year.
Initially, Duncanson refused to talk to police about the near-fatal accident. She also did not allow them to speak with her son.
The two boys said she let them ride on her bumper before but she did not drive fast nor swerve. Duncanson has not been jailed but has been asked to not drive any children whose parents do not know about the incident.
Let this be a lesson to parents everywhere - even when something can seem harmless and fun, you need to think about the repercussions. Thankfully, the boys survived the accident. Davis Law Group hopes for a full recovery of the young boys.
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