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August 10, 2011

Famous British Caricaturists – Part Two

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 10:39 am

This list includes both British born artists and those who were born elsewhere but did most of their most important creations in the U.K. The selection is listed in chronological order by date of birth.

Max Beerbohm ( 1872 ? 1956 )

Sir Henry Maximilian “Max” Beerbohm was born in London, son of a well-to-do Lithuanian-born grain merchant. His family gave him he nick-name of Max and that is what he signed himself in his work and was known as for the rest of his life.

Beerbohm was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford but finished without taking a degree as he was already well recognized as a caricaturist and humourist.

He had an incapacity to draw hands and feet but was very good at heads and his dandified figures with inflated heads quickly became his trade-mark. The Times newspaper in 1913 described him as ?the greatest of English comic artists and he was variously hailed as ?the English Goya? and “the greatest portrayer of personalities in the history of art?

Henry Bateman (1887 – 1970)

Bateman was born in New South Wales, Australia of English parents who came back to England soon after he was born. He studied art at Westminster School of Art and the Goldsmith Institute.

His style matured early in life and by the age of 17 it was already established. He achieved a deal with Tatler magazine but is best well-known for his ?The Man Who??.? series of cartoons. These showed hapless people who had committed mostly upper class social faux pas. ?The Man Who lit his Cigar before the Loyal Toast? is a prime example.

Sir David Low (1891 – 1963)

Sir David Alexander Cecil Low was born in New Zealand and taught at Dunedin and Christchurch. He started his professional career in New Zealand and in fact his first effort was published whilst he was just 11 years of age.

He later moved to Australia and subsequently to England and by 1927 was working for The Evening Standard. He is best well-known for his caricatures depicting Hitler and Mussolini both before and during World War II. In fact, generations of New Zealand school children learned about the origins of the Second World War using textbooks illustrated by Low.

He was particularly hated by Hitler and after the war it was discovered that his name was in the ?Black Book? which listed those who the Nazis wished to arrest when they had occupied Britain.

Low was knighted in 1962, a year before his death. His obituary spoke of him as “the leading cartoonist of the western world”

Ronald Searle (b. 1920)

Ronald William Fordham Searle was born in Cambridge and began drawing at the prodigiously early age of five and was working professionally by the age of 15. The War interrupted his art studies and he enlisted in the Royal Engineers .

He was serving in Singapore when he was captured by the Japanese. He was a prisoner of war for the rest of the war eventually working on the notorious Siam-Burma ?Death Railway?. He created, in secret, many drawings depicting conditions in the camps which survived detection by being hidden under the mattresses of dying prisoners.

He returned to England at the end of the war and produced a prodigious volume of work in the 1950?s and 60?s. However he is best known as the creator of ?St Trinians School?.

Gerald Scarfe (b. 1936)

Gerald Anthony Scarfe was born in London and as a child was severely asthmatic. During his early bed-ridden years he busied himself by drawing. He began his working life in advertising but by the early 60?s his caricatures were appearing in ?Private Eye? and this led to a job with the ?Daily Mail?.

But it was his work with the British rock group Pink Floyd for which he is best known especially the illustration for the cover of their 1979 album ?The Wall?.

Searle also provided the caricatures for the opening and closing sequences of the well-liked BBC comedy ?Yes Minister? and in 1998 he drew caricatures of Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecombe, Joyce Grenfell, Les Dawson and Peter Cook which featured on a set of five British postage stamps commemorating British comedians.

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August 8, 2011

History of Cricket

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 2:43 pm

It may come as a surprise to those who have not learned the history of cricket, but it is now believed that Cricket really started in Saxon or Norman times as a children?s game played by children living in the area called the Weald of Kent in what is today Kent and Sussex in South East England . It was not taken up as an adult game until the start of the 17th century.

The first documented reference to the game in the history of cricket is to be discovered in the records of a 1598 court case concerning a disagreement over a school’s ownership of a plot of land. A 59-year old coroner, John Derrick, testified that he and his school friends had played ‘creckett’ on the site fifty years earlier.

The school was the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Mr Derrick’s report proves beyond reasonable doubt that the game was being played in Surrey around 1550.

The first mention of it being played as an adult sport was in 1611, when two men in Sussex were prosecuted for playing cricket on Sunday instead of going to church. This was in the same year that a dictionary defined cricket as a boys’ game and this implies that adult participation was a recent development.

With all the recent press coverage of the pressure of gambling upon the outcome of cricket matches, it is astonishing that historically, gambling played a very substantial part in the development of the game in England. Cricket had definitely become a major gambling sport by the end of the 17th century.

There is a newspaper account of a “great match” played in Sussex in 1697 which was 11-a-side and played for the high stakes of 50 guineas a side. 50 guineas would be the equal of GBP5,000 to GBP 6,000 in today?s terms.

The present day system of County teams came about as a result of well-off gamblers forming their own teams in order to fortify their bets and began to employ local experts from village cricket as the first professionals. It is believed that the first ?County? game took place in 1697 between Sussex and another county.

Cricket was introduced to North America via the British colonies in the 17th century, and in the 18th century it spread to other regions of the British dominated world. It was introduced to the West Indies by colonists and to India by the British East India Company in the first half of the century.

The early colonists took it to Australia soon after 1788 followed by New Zealand and South Africa in the early years of the 19th century.

It might come as a shock to lots of people that the very first International cricket game took place between the United States and Canada in 1844 (Canada won by 23 runs) and the very first overseas tour was by a party of leading English professionals who toured North America in 1857.

The first English tour of Australia was in 1862, with the first Australian tour of England being by a team of Australian Aborigine players in 1868.

In 1877, an England touring team in Australia played two matches against full Australian XIs that are now thought of as the very first Test matches. The next year, the Australians toured England for the first time and were a magnificent success.

No Tests were played on that tour but more soon followed. At The Oval in 1882, there was played what was to become the most well-known match of all time which gave birth to The Ashes.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is currently involved with the London 2012 Olympics mascot. Click a link if you are interested in the 2012 London Olympics Volunteers.

July 1, 2011

Satellite Radio: Is It Expensive?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 1:36 pm

Satellite radio is highly popular these days and it is increasing in popularity more and more every day. If you are not certain what satellite radio is, you can look at it like cable or satellite television. In essence, satellite radio is a subscription only service. It has a colossal assortment of radio stations that are not available on the ordinary AM or FM services.

If you are wondering about how much satellite radio costs, then the answer is the maddening one: it depends. It depends, because there are several variables, such as the apparatus itself, installation fees and monthly fees. Equipment from the countless manufacturers varies a lot as well.

For example, Bose is more expensive than a Chinese device from Walmart. Installation charges vary depending on where you live and who you use and the monthly fee will depend on which package or bundle you select. So, unfortunately, the answer is: it depends.

There is also a one-off ‘activation fee’. This costs about $15 if you do it by phone and about $5 if you do it over the Internet. However, the push is on to get you signed up, so there are frequently promotions on doing away with this ridiculous rip-off fee. As if you will not be paying enough in monthly charges for the rest of your life!

If you want to install satellite radio in your car, you have two alternatives, if your existing radio is not ‘satellite ready’. You can either buy a new car stereo that is ‘satellite ready’ or you can purchase a satellite signal receiver and decoder unit and plug it into your present radio. This decoder can be hidden away under the driver’s seat or stashed in the trunk of the car. You will also need a new antenna on the roof.

Costs differ outrageously, but let’s average it out at $600 for a decent, new, satellite-enabled, ready to go stereo fitted and working or $350 for a cheap system using your own radio, but also ready to receive satellite broadcasts. So, you could say, on average, for about $500 you can be listening to satellite broadcasts.

However, just as with laptop computer prices, demand causes downward pressure on prices and by the time you read this article, the price could have halved. Let’s hope so.

Portable satellite radio receivers can be a bit cheaper, mostly because there are no installation charges and come out at around $400.

Then there are the monthly subscription charges. As I said above, this depends on the package you choose. The average fee is $10-$15 a month, but specific channels can be extra. For instance, you could get the Playboy channel for free at one time, but the normal cost is $2.95 per month.

Sport can cost more, especially for a finals match. Sometimes, you can get a discount for paying annually and Sirius even has a one-off, lifetime option at $500. Perhaps the best thing to do is keep an eye on the promotional offers and be ready to pounce quickly when a suitable one comes up.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a variety of subjects, but is currently concerned with Bose alarm clocks. If you would like to kcurrently more, please visit our website at Bose Digital Radio.

June 28, 2011

The History of Golf

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:13 pm

A lot of debate has gone on concerning the history of golfing, long traditionally believed to have started in the area surrounding the Firth of Forth in Scotland. A golfing-like game is recorded as taking place on 26 February 1297, in the Netherlands, where the Dutch played a game with a stick and leather ball.

However, contemporary research into the history of golfing has uncovered references to a game very similar to modern day golfing being played in China during the period of the Southern Tang dynasty, at least 500 years before golfing was first mentioned in Scotland.

It has been suggested that the game was first exported to Europe and later Scotland by Mongolian travellers in the later Middle Ages.

In Scotland the first recorded documentary evidence for golf was in an act of the Scottish parliament in 1457 which prohibited the playing of ?gowf? and football in case they detract from the necessary military exercise of archery practice. In a subsequent ban of 1491 golfing was described as ‘an unprofitable sport’!. Something which Tiger Woods is probably ignorant of!

There are reports in the accounts of a Scottish lawyer, Sir John Foulis of Ravelston, that he played golf at Musselburgh Links on 2 March 1672, and this has been accepted as proving that The Old Links, Musselburgh, is the oldest golf course in the world. Mary, Queen of Scots is supposed to have played there in 1567.

The Company of Gentlemen Golfers, later renamed The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers set down the oldest surviving rules of golf in 1744. Their “Articles and Laws in Playing at Golf, known as the Leith Rules, after the course at which they played sustain the club’s claim to be the world?s first golf club, though an almanac published around a century later is the first record of a rival claim that The Royal Burgess Golf Society had been set up in 1735.

The directions in the Leith Rules formed the basis for all subsequent codes, for instance needing that “Your Tee must be upon the ground” and “You are not to change the Ball which you strike off the Tee”

After King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in 1603 the spread of golf to be a world wide sport commenced. He and his courtiers played golf at Blackheath, London, from which the Royal Blackheath Golf Club traces its origins.

The spread of golf world wide was began by Scottish soldiers, expatriates and emigrants who took the sport to British colonies and elsewhere.

The Royal Calcutta Golf Club (1829) and the club at Pau (1856) in south western France are significant reminders of these trips and are the oldest golf clubs outside of the British Isles and the oldest in continental Europe respectively.

Evidence of early golf in the United States includes an advertisement published in the Royal Gazette of New York City in 1779 for golfing discotheques and balls, and the notice of the annual general meeting for a golfing club in Savannah published in the Georgia Gazette in 1796.

However, as in England, it was not until the late 19th century that golfing started to become firmly established. There are several competing claims to be the oldest club, but what is not contested is that in 1894 delegates from the Newport Country Club, Saint Andrew’s Golf Club, Yonkers, New York, The Country Club, Chicago Golf Club, and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club met in New York City to kind what was to become the United States Golf Association (USGA).

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June 24, 2011

Surround Sound Speaker Systems

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:23 pm

The generations alive now, especially in the Developed world, are all au fait with speaker technology to a certain level. Most individuals began purchasing music centres in the Seventies if they were old enough and that trend has carried on and the technology has got better and better.

Audio reproduction has come on in leaps and bounds since the Fifties and Sixties when most people were satisfied with a mono Dansette record player. My father was still listening to his favourite 78′s on a wind-up record player with a pin for a needle and a trumpet for a loudspeaker in the early Sixties. Then he purchased a Dansette later in the Sixties.

I purchased a Sanyo music centre in the Seventies and he followed suit. The quality of acoustic reproduction on those systems was laughable in comparison with what is on the market these days.

The latest development is surround sound, which was only accessible in the cinema twenty years ago, but surround sound speakers are far better now than they were then and you can install them at home without requiring a bank loan.

Usually surround sound speakers are connected with film scores, so a surround sound speaker system could be fitted to the outline jacks on your television or home theatre system.

Home theatres are very much in fashion now that many individuals are having to stay in more frequently to save money. A small family that likes to go to the pictures once a week can recoup the costs of a good home theatre system within a year.

When looking at surround sound speakers, you may think that the cost is high, but do not forget that it is the surround sound speakers that transform a film into a cinematographic experience. They also last forever if not abused.

Two pointers: get the best that you can afford and buy speakers that will stand on the floor or can be hung on the wall.

Purchase quality rather than quantity. If you can just afford two speakers of great quality, so be it, You can buy another one later. With surround sound, the rule is: the more speakers the better.

Three is the absolute minimum, seven is fine, but eight is much better. The more speakers that you have, the less volume you will have to put through them so the longer they will last.

The above configurations will be stated as: 2:1 (stereo plus a sub-woofer); 6:1 (front and back stereo speakers, a front central channel and a rear sub-woofer); 7:1 will add a rear central channel.

The good thing about this type of surround speaker system is that you can easily upgrade it, but you have to start properly by buying a recognized marque that will allow you to add speakers throughout the years.

One of the best speaker systems you can buy are Bose, but they are expensive, but they are also the envy of any sound enthusiast too. If you want the best, but do not have the capital take your time building a system of Bose surround sound speakers.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on numerous topics, but is now involved with Bose IE2 Headphones. If you would like to know more, just visit our website at Bose Digital Radio.

June 23, 2011

Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:27 pm

Pattaya is a city constructed for fun on the northeastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand. It is located in Chonburi Province around 150 kilometres south of Bangkok. In the Sixties, Pattaya was hardly known, yet the American soldiers fighting in Vietnam started using it for R&R and it started to boom. Pattaya is most famous for its entertainment and its nightlife, yet in fact it has a lot more than that to offer.

As far as only sport goes, Pattaya offers horse riding, swimming, diving, wind surfing, golf, tennis and jet skiing among others. However, unlike most sporting towns or cities, it does not start to go to sleep when the sun goes down.

The bars, restaurants, discos and strip bars begin to open in profusion at around four o’clock. The bars are of each persuasion to suit each niche market.

There are Welsh bars, American bars, Irish bars, Lady Boy bars and each other type of bar you can think of. Likewise with the restaurants, there are specialized restaurants for each country. There are bush game restaurants, Chinese, Japanese, American, French, German and fish restaurants. In fact there are thousands of restaurants and bars all trying to become unique.

I am sure that you could stay in Pattaya for months without going the same bar or eating the same sort of food twice. This is just as well because there are representatives from each country in the world there as well. You will hear English, Russian and every European and Asian language spoken in Pattaya on a regular basis.

Pattaya receives over one million visitors a year. Most of these visitors are men, and the local government is attempting to do more to appeal to women and families by relocating the girlie bars back away from the beach.

Despite it being quite large, you can stay in your favourite part of Pattaya yet find nearly everything you desire near-by. However, if you do have to get about, nothing could be simpler. Most individuals merely hop on a ‘Baht Bus’. These small open-backed pick-ups can be seen going around the city by quite predictable routes when you understand the layout of the city.

The ‘fixed fare’ is ten Baht for as far as you want to go on the route, although some drivers will endeavor to trick more out of you if you go a long distance. Thais pay five Baht. If you do not feel confident enough to predict where the bus is going, you could get on one of the thousands of motorcycle taxis.

They are dearer at about forty to sixty Baht, but they will go anywhere you like. Get a quote before you set off to avoid disappointment on both sides. If you do not want to hire a car, there are other alternatives. You could hire a motorcycle or motorbike. A motorcycle costs around 100 Baht a day at the cheapest, but beware the traffic in Pattaya it can be fairly chaotic.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on several topics, but is now involved with Songkran – the old Thai New Year. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Package Holidays to Thailand.

June 17, 2011

The Two Fundamental Types Of RC Cars

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 12:25 pm

Do you like the notion of taking part in a real car race? Many people do, but the number of us that get the opportunity to drive a real racing car is tiny to infinitesimal. Lots of individuals would be too frightened to get behind the wheel of a real racing car anyway because the power of these vehicles is really awesome. However, there is a viable alternative and that is remote controlled car racing.

RC car racing is highly exciting, but there is scarcely any risk to the driver or the fans. The rest is all there: thrills, spills, crashes, speed, skids, fires, gambling, etc.. The best drivers and the best builders are famous within their sport and are treated like mini stars. Some of these RC cars go very fast and they can accelerate and take corners faster than their full-scale counterparts.

There are two basic sorts of RC cars which are differentiated by their power source.

Electric RC Cars: this is the most prevalent sort of RC car, probably because parents buy them for children and a newcomer to the sport may purchase one to see whether he likes it or not.

The largest advantage of the electric RC car is that they are silent, which is a big plus point if your children use their cars in the garden. It is also important if you would like to attach a camera or a video recorder to it for filming timid, wild animals like birds.

They are also less expensive than other kinds of model cars and smokeless, which means that you can practice manoeuvres inside if it is raining.

Some disadvantages are that the batteries of an electric RC car wear down. This means that the car will become slower and that the speed of the car will be regulated by the charge of the batteries not the power of the engine.

Batteries are expensive too and rechargeable batteries are very expensive to purchase. The batteries might run down whilst the car is some distance away.

Liquid Fuel RC Cars: there are two types of liquid fuel RC cars: those that run on a special mix known as Nitro and those that run on petrol. These cars are a lot faster than battery cars and they run for much longer too.

They are also cheaper to run. These facts make the liquid fuel RC car the choice of real enthusiasts, racers and car builders alike.

Petrol and Nitro are cheap in comparison with batteries and the amount that the engines of these cars get through is almost insignificant anyway.

However, they come with disadvantages too. They have an internal combustion engine, so they produce smoke, which means that they must not be used indoors and they are loud. Most racers would declare that this adds to the thrill of a race and they are probably right.

These model RC cars were meant to race and the public loves to see them doing it.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many topics, but is at present involved with remote controlled cars as a hobby. If you have an interest in model or toy RC cars, just go over to our website now at 1/5 Scale RC Cars

June 11, 2011

Hybrid Cars

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 1:33 pm

In essence, hybrid electric cars have two engines: a conventional petrol or diesel engine (the same as you would find in any modern car and an electric, battery powered engine, as you might find in a milk float or a forklift truck. The magical difference is that the car’s on board computer judges which engine is necessary to provide the power needed by the driver and turns it on.

Therefore, if you are accelerating to cruising speed for motorway driving; going up hill or overtaking, the car will probably use its liquid fuel engine but then as you ease off the accelerator to, say, cruise down the motorway; go down the other side of the hill or to drive in slow traffic, the computer will turn off the liquid fuel engine and turn on the electric engine.

The electric engine can be regarded as free to run, because it runs off batteries which are recharged by the car whilst it is using petrol or diesel and at some other times, such as while it is braking (and the alternators are recharging in both modes). You should never have to recharge your car’s batteries overnight as they do with forklift trucks.

There are in essence two kinds of hybrid cars: the semi hybrids and the full hybrids.

The semi hybrids have the same sort of set up: two engines, one running on liquid fuel and the other running on batteries, but the electric motor is not capable of running the car on its own. It is there to ‘assist’ the petrol or diesel engine.

In this type of hybrid, the electric motor is called an ‘assist’. These semi hybrids will save money on fuel, but whilst the car is moving, you are burning fuel all the time.

The main difference when it comes to the full hybrid is that both engines are capable of powering the car autonomously. Whilst you are running on electricity, you are running at zero expense to your wallet and at zero expense to the environment, unless you are actually pushing the car and then both engines might be working in union.

This changing of power sources is done robotically without any intrusion from the driver. In the case of the Prius, for instance, this remarkable achievement is accomplished by what Ford calls its Hybrid Synergy Drive. Other firms have their equivalent to the HSD.

In order to get the most out of these full hybrids, you actually need to be doing an ‘average amount’ of driving under ‘average’ or ‘mixed’ circumstances. For instance, if you are driving in traffic, the car will try to use the electric engine, but if all you do is drive in inner city traffic jams the batteries will soon become depleted and you will be driving on liquid fuel all the time, which sort of negates the main reason for spending a great deal extra on a hybrid in the first instance.

The car needs to travel on open motorways in order to recharge its batteries so that it can utilize them once it gets back into town. If you just drive in town traffic, you may be better off getting a little run around instead.

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June 10, 2011

Skiing Holidays In Andorra – An Introduction

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:29 pm

Andorra is a tiny principality in the eastern region of the Pyrenees Mountains which run across the border between France and Spain. It is a very mountainous country where they speak Catalan, Spanish, French and their own local dialect. English is widely understood if not spoken. The co-rulers of Andorra are the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell.

The people of Andorra have the second highest life expectancy in the world (82 years at birth). Although Andorra is not in the European Union, it uses the Euro because it is easier for everyone. Andorra is a very prosperous nation because it is a tax haven and its 85,000 inhabitants are hosts to more than 10,0000,0000 tourists a year.

Most of those tourists are skiers or are interested in skiing. So, it goes without saying that the quality of skiing in Andorra is of world class proportions. For people who are not interested in skiing, the views are breath-taking and the clean mountain air is a tonic, which makes Andorra popular with ramblers and hikers. If you are touring the area, you can visit France or Spain from Andorra within several hours, depending on the weather.

The skiing industry in Andorra has come a long way since the first ski lift was installed in 1956. Most of the skiing tourists come from France, Spain and Britain. Although nowhere in the south of France can be considered cheap, Andorra levies hardly any tax on goods so this reduces the costs quite a bit. Perfume, cigarettes and alcohol are particularly cheap compared with its neighbours.

The largest skiing resort by far in Andorra is Grandvalira which has 193 ski slopes serviced by 66 ski lifts. Andorra in general and Grandvalira in particular has a reputation of being good for beginners and families. This is because numerous of the slopes are quite gentle and the area specializes in ski schools and training. Grandvalira alone has seven separate training centres and more than 450 qualified skiing instructors. Snowboarding is also taught at many of these schools.

Vallnord is another of Andorra’s famous resorts. Vallnord has perhaps a wider range of ski slopes than Grandvalira, since it also caters for the advanced skier. It is smaller than Grandvalira with just 50 different slopes and 30 ski lifts, but that helps give it a more intimate, isolated atmosphere than its enormous competitor.

There are also training schools at Vallnord and it is a centre from which you can sight-see and tour. If you want to ski, but also travel around, it is best not to take your own skis. You can travel by bus or by car, although you really should have some experience before driving through snowy mountains, where the weather can become treacherous at the blink of an eye.

If you travel by coach, you can hire skiing apparatus and clothing wherever you decide to come to a halt. Nowhere is far from anywhere in Andorra as the whole principality covers less than 200 square miles, but the weather can be a hazard to drivers who are not used to mountain weather conditions.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on several topics, but is now involved with short ski breaks. If you would like to know more, please go over to our web site at Ski Package Holidays.

How Old Is Hurling?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:18 pm

Although hurling is generally recognized as a Gaelic sport it should perhaps be called a Celtic one. For the history of hurling is in fact older than the history of Ireland itself. It started even before Christianity, arriving in Ireland more than three thousand years ago with the Celts.

The earliest references to hurling in Ireland is in early Irish laws dating from the fifth century. Hurling played a prominent part in early Irish mythology. Legendary Irish heroes such as Cuchulainnt and Fionn Mac Cumhail and his Fianna are both written of as taking part in hurling.

Hurling is, basically, a stick and ball game. The game is thought to be allied to the games of shinty that is played primarily in Scotland, cammag on the Isle of Man and bandy that was played formerly in England and Wales.

The stick was, and indeed, still is known as a hurley and the ball a sliotar. Early Irish lawn Law stated that the son of a r? (local king) could have his hurley hooped in bronze, while others could only make use of copper. It was illegal to impound a hurley.

The object of the game is for players to use the hurley to hit a small ball through the opposition’s goalposts either over the crossbar for one point, or under the crossbar into a net defended by a goalkeeper for one goal, which is the same as three points.

The sliotar can be caught in the hand and carried for not more than four steps, struck in the air, or hit on the ground with the hurley. It can be kicked or slapped with an open hand (the hand pass) for short-range passing. A player who wants to carry the ball for more than three steps has to bounce or balance the sliotar on the end of the stick and the ball can only be handled twice while in his possession.

The English occupation of Ireland led to many statutes prohibitting or restricting the playing of hurling as it diverted people from archery practice. The earliest of these goes back to the 13th century.

However, it was the Eighteenth Century that came to be known as the ?The Golden Age? of hurling as members of the Anglo-Irish landowning gentry frequently kept teams of players on their estates and challenged each other’s teams to matches for the amusement of their tenants.

Tales of colourful hurling games from this era continue to be collected from contemporary Irish storytellers and newspapers of the period. The contemporary age of hurling In Ireland dates from the establishment of the Gaelic Athletic Association formed in 1884 in Thurles, County Tipperary under the illustrious patronage of Thomas Croke, Archbishop of Cashel and Charles Parnell.

The 20th Century saw greater organisation in hurling. The all-Ireland Hurling championship came into existence along with the provincial championships. Cork, Kilkenny and Tipperary dominated hurling in the 20th Century with every one of these counties winning more than 20 All-Ireland titles each. Wexford, Waterford, Clare, Limerick, Offaly, Dublin, and Galway were also strong hurling counties during the 20th Century.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on several subjects, but is at present involved with London Olympics 2012 venues. Click a link if you are interested in 2012 London Olympics Volunteers.

June 9, 2011

Pool Safety Fences: A Buyer’s Guide

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 2:57 pm

If you have had a swimming pool for some time or if you are thinking of getting one – either an above-ground or an in-ground swimming pool – you must check to see whether your district requires you to take any safety precautions. For instance, some states in America require the erection of a swimming pool safety fence by law, others are about to introduce such a law and others are thinking about calling for a pool alarm too.

However, it is not all one-sided. There are also benefits to the owner of the pool of installing a pool safety fence. The foremost benefit of such a fence is safety. If you have young children or grand-children, you do not always have the time to supervise them playing in the pool, so a fence is a way of allowing the kids to play in the garden while excluding them from the dangerous pool.

Kids can be scallywags, all adults know that even if some parents think that their own children are not, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone else thinks they are. Our children know that they have to behave in front of us, but what happens while they know that we are not looking? You know, you were a kid yourself once. I climbed the fence into the municipal outdoor pool more than once when I was a teenager and usually after a few beers.

The fact is that if you have an unprotected pool, there is a good chance that the local kids will use it when you are away and these days that means negligence on behalf of the pool owner. Whether that is right or wrong, it is like that and if someone should drown in your pool, you would be in big trouble, unless you could prove that your took reasonable measures to prevent unauthorized access to your pool.

A security pool fence is just about the cheapest way of doing this, although fences can be easily scaled as I full-well know. However, having a fence shows that you have considered the problem and that you have tried to deter intruders.

There are quite a number of acceptable styles of pool fencing but it may vary from district to district, so it is first worth checking whether there are any local minimum standards in force in your region. Other than that, there are choices of wire, timber and steel. Wire can include mesh fences as well.

Wood almost certainly looks the best and gives the most options. If you want total privacy, you can have a full fence or if you would like to be able to see out, you could go for hit-and-miss vertical boarding. I do not like mesh, personally. I have painted tens of miles of fencing in my time and there always seems to be litter caught in the mesh. Iron railings are nice too, but pretty costly.

Whichever sort of fence you go for, grow a continuous wall of the prickliest, thorniest bushes you can find about the base of it. Pyracanthas are good and the berries attract birds – wild birds, that is. Let them grow to three or four feet high and they will deter drunks and afford the ladies some privacy while lying around the pool.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on several topics, but is now involved with speedo swimming costumes. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Swimwear for Big Busts.

The Ashes – Cricket’s Most Prized Trophy

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 11:57 am

The Ashes is the nickname given to a biennial series of test cricket matches played between England and Australia. The very first cricket test match was played between England and Australia in 1877, but the notion of ?playing for the Ashes? dates from some five years later after England had lost the ninth test match played between the two rivals.

On their 1882 tour to England only one test match was played at The Oval in August. The wicket was virtually impossible to play on and Australia, who batted first, made just 63 runs. England, in response, played a little better but by scoring 101, did accomplish a first innings lead of 38 runs.

In Australia?s second innings Hugh Massie?s 55, struck at a run a minute, enabled the tourists to make 122 runs . This had the effect that England required a mere 85 runs for victory. But they had not made allowance for Fred Spofforth, dubbed ?The Demon Bowler? who refused to acknowledge defeat.

?This thing can be done? he declared and promptly succeeded in taking down the England batting. He took his final four wickets for only two runs and England lost the match by only seven runs.

This defeat sent shock waves throughout the English sporting establishment and a number of fake obituaries appeared in the sporting press, including the most famous one which appeared in ?The Sporting Times? on 2 September. It went as follows :

?In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29th AUGUST 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P.

N.B.-The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.

Therefore this was the first reference in print to ?The Ashes?. The England tour of Australia later that year was captained by Ivo Bligh who was afterwards to be the Earl of Darnley. Bligh said that he would ?regain the ashes? and this he went on to do with England winning the three match series by two games to one.

However the expression ?the Ashes? did not really catch on until 1903 when Pelham (or ?Plum?) Warner took a team out to Australia with the same promise of recapturing the ashes. This England did by winning the series 3 -2 . The Australian press latched on to the expression and this time it stuck.

An ?urn? to contain the ashes was created and presented to Bligh during the 1882-83 tour. It is said to contain the ashes of a cricket bail. It was presented to Bligh by a group of Victorian ladies including Bligh?s future wife.

The urn is a small terracotta vase about six inches high and may initially have held scent. It is so fragile that it is now kept permanently at the MCC headquarters at Lords.

There is a general conviction that the urn and its contents represent the official trophy played for by England and Australia, but it is in fact a private memento owned by the Darnley family and is just on loan to the MCC.

The trophy really played for is a larger Waterford glass reproduction, but the original ?Ashes urn? still stays one of the most well-known sporting icons in the world.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on several topics, but is currently concerned with tickets for London Olympics. Click a link if you are interested in 2012 London Olympics Volunteers.

June 8, 2011

Why Should I get XM Satellite Radio?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:52 pm

XM Radio is one of the two largest American satellite radio broadcasters. They broadcast over 150 programmes of all types like sports, traffic, weather, music of all decades and comedy.

The largest area of their broadcasting activities though is music. After all, that is what most people like to listen to while they are driving or working at home or in the yard.

The music of XM Radio is wide-ranging, catering for the needs of every music ever recorded. For instance, of the sixty-eight music channels, there are channels that play music from only one decade: from the Forties to the Noughties!

Then, transversing those barriers of time, there are music channels that only play Rock and Roll or only play Bee Bop or only play the Blues. There are also channels that only play new records.

There are others that only transmit film soundtracks. In fact, XM music radio has most bases covered. There are even channels that play the music that is being made live in nightclubs such as the ‘B.B. King Club’ in New York City! The ‘Blue Note Club’ is there as well! In fact, the world of music is your oyster.

Then, on a different level, there are the leisure shows hosted by people like Snoop Dog and comedy shows with artists such as Opie and Anthony. There is family comedy too and Playboy Radio for the adult members of the family, although Playboy Radio films do not have to be censored.

Sports fans will enjoy the devoted sports channels. XM Radio’s sports channels report on such sports as American football, basketball and baseball on a regular basis, although there are international sports shown for the more out-going as well: worldwide, International sports such as soccer, the most popular participation sport in the world.

In fact, there are at present thirty-eight sports channels in XM’s stable, although by the time you read this, there will probably be three or four times that number. Many service providers are flocking to Xm’s service in order to gain nationwide coverage in the United States.

News channels are there as well. Channels like the world-respected BBC World Service, CNBC, Fox, the controversial C-Span, CNN, the Discovery Channel, NASCAR Racing, E-Entertainment and many more.

If you require equipment to receive this interesting new technology, you can easily find it on the Internet or in your local shopping mall. The cost of the equipment will not break the bank, but it is best if you price it up and then wait a week or two because new ‘special offers’ are coming out all the time.

The best technique to get XM Satellite Radio for today’s best price is to wait and look which way the wind is blowing, in a short while you will get this illustrious satellite broadcaster for a bargain price.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now concerned with Bose Radioss. If you would like to know more, please go to our website at Bose Digital Radio.

June 5, 2011

Tackling Atherosclerosis With Good Nutrition (part 2)

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:34 pm

You will have to make your own mind up on whether cholesterol or omega 6 is to blame for atherosclerosis. The argument is similar to the dieting problem: do you have faith in in the old-style fat-reduction, high carbohydrate diet or the newer, Atkins’ high fat low carbohydrate diet?

It is very confusing for the layman, but that is how specialists sell books. You pay your money and take your choice or you merely go along with your medical doctor.

However, both camps of dietitians agree that fish oil is healthy for you and in particular is helpful for decreasing LDL cholesterol and omega 6 excess. Omega 3 is best taken in oily, cold water fish like salmon, herring and mackerel.

They contain relatively high levels of omega 3 essential fatty acids. Another source of omega 3, but different ones from the fish, is from meat that has been fed on grass.

Garlic is famous for being an antiseptic but it is also useful for reducing cholesterol. It appears to have a lethal impact on LDL (bad) cholesterol, but leaves HDL (good) cholesterol alone. One clove a day is said to be enough to have a beneficial effect.

Fibre and roughage are crucial for good general health. These components are to be discovered in fruit and vegetables (especially the leafy green ones); grains, lentils, legumes and nuts. Roughage and fibre will help eradicate LDL cholesterol and prevent constipation. They also help prevent bowel cancer which is on the rise in the West.

Some nutritionists say that LDL is not perilous, but is just a threat and it becomes perilous when it has been damaged. One kind of damage is oxidization. Therefore, anti-oxidants will reduce your risk from cholesterol and arteriosclerosis. The next question ought to be: what are major anti-oxidants?

There is a colossal array of anti-oxidants ranging from the fun to the boring. I do not know what you find boring, but flavonoids are a useful anti-oxidant and they are present in high volumes in red wine. As well red wine, other anti-oxidants include: Vitamins Ce and E and beta carotene.

These are available in peppers, citrus fruit, strawberries, cantaloupe melons, broccoli, white carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, mangoes and green leaf vegetables. Other good sources are wheat, oats, nuts and seeds.

Mono unsaturated fat is one of the best sources of oil you can find. Mono unsaturated fat comes best from olive oil, which is one of the factors why the so-called Mediterranean Diet is so healthy for people.

Mono unsaturated fat has another valuable effect: eating it lowers hunger for a longer time than you would expect for the calories involved. This makes it a good substance for dieters. The same is true of roughage, fibre and eggs.

Mono unsaturated fat is one of your best friends in the fight against arteriosclerosis. However, it is not merely present in olive oil, it is also in avocados and nuts, particularly pecan nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts and almonds.

Last but not least is ginger. Ginger has a high amount of phytochemicals known as gingerol and shogaol which are also antioxidants. Ginger not just lowers LDL cholesterol, but it also assists prevent the oxidization of LDL

If you can just implement a few these alterations to your diet you may be able to ward off arteriosclerosis and avoid having to take drugs like statins for ever.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a number of topics, and is now concerned with omega 3 arthritis. If you want to know more, please go to our web site at Omega 6 9

Winter Sports – Skiing

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 2:00 pm

Skiing is a very economic way of travelling over long distances of snow and people have been using it as such for thousands of years. In fact, the first recorded instance of skiing was found in Norland, Norway and it has been dated back to 5000 BC. Skiing has been used for rapid travel, hunting and warfare ever since then and probably before.

However, there are basically three types of skiing, namely, Nordic, Telemark and Alpine skiing. Skiing was made popular for the international market by Sondre Norheim in the late Nineteenth Century, which coincided with Europeans becoming more adventurous in their choice of foreign holidays – well, for the rich at any rate.

Telemark skiing was developed in the Nineteen-Seventies from his notions on skiing. However, the development of skiing techniques did not quit there. The Austrians, Mathias Zdarsky and Hannes Schneider were key in developing techniques further, although one cannot help thinking that the skiers of seven thousand years ago knew most of those methods way back then as well.

As skiing has become more and more popular over the last sixty or seventy years, so more and more skiing locations have sprung up. There are skiing resorts all over the world, but the most famous and popular are in Europe, especially in Scandinavia and mainland Europe.

There are skiing locations in the Pyrenees on the border of Spain and France, in Croatia and in Italy, but the most famous resorts are in the Swiss and French Alps, which are actually adjoining. There are even skiing resorts in Scotland.

However, there are also equally good skiing resorts in the United States, Canada and Asia. Wherever, you go skiing, there are items that a skier needs to get in order to be able to ski. a skier needs warm clothing and skiing apparatus. If you are a frequent skier, then you can buy your own clothing and your own equipment, but for most skiers, renting is good enough. At least, if you rent apparatus you do not have to carry lumpy gear around with you.

Resorts have ski runs of different skill levels, but you can also ‘go off piste’, which means ski the wild, untended slopes. This is a lot more dangerous as these slopes are not tended, cleared or manned, so there is more risk of an accident and less chance that you will be discovered if you be into trouble. Avalanches are also less well investigated for off piste ski slopes.

Skiing is something that anyone can learn, but it is not easy to master. The earlier that someone starts the better. Skiers take falls and older bones break more easily than younger ones. Beginners fall more frequently than experts, so it makes sense to learn how to ski when you are young.

However, do not let that put you off, it is only a warning to be sensible. If you have always wanted to learn to ski, then go for it, but please do yourself a favour and learn the safety rules of skiing too.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on several subjects, but is now involved with short ski breaks. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Ski Package Holidays.

June 4, 2011

Is Golfing A Good Kind Of Exercise?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:40 pm

We all realize that we should exercise. Some individuals even like doing it, but unfortunately for society and most of us in it, the majority of us cannot be bothered to get off their backsides, which is why the populations of Western countries are turning to lard before our very eyes. This is a shame not merely for the ones involved but for the tax-payers who have to refill the public coffers in order to take care of them when they become sick.

So, how can we induce ourselves to take more exercise? Obviously government health warnings are merely benefiting marketing agencies and the media, so what else? Maybe, they could tell us: ‘Play tennis once a week, you will enjoy that vodka a whole lot more afterwards!’. Or ‘Play a round of golf first and that G&T will taste better!’ Or: ‘Walk a mile to the pub, have a pint, walk back and have another one, you will need it!’ The puritanical way definitely has not worked, so why not give realism a try?

I mentioned golf there quite by accident, but it seems to me that going for a game of golf and having a drink with your friends later is a whole lot better than watching it on TV with a can. It is not just the walking either, which most of us do not do enough of anyway, but it is the actions connected with hitting the ball – the swing and hand-eye co-ordination as well. And the social life afterwards, and loads of people miss out on a social life especially after retirement or the death of a spouse.

Now golf might not appear to you to be an interesting sport and I understand that point of view completely, but that is because it is not until you comprehend how hard it is to hit that ball hundreds of yards onto the green that most people can grasp the difficulty of playing the game well. That might be true of most sports, but golf does look so leisurely, does it not?

One of the good things about golf is that you can play with golfers of comparable ability to yourself so that you do not feel embarrassed or ‘out of place’. If you join a ramblers’ club after 30 years of watching TV, you will soon feel old and past it, but golf is different, because there is no pace, no hurry, you can take as long as you like, you can let people ‘play through’ (go on before you) and you can call it a day and retire to the club house whenever you like.

Many retired people take up golf, particularly if they were used to being active at work, but it is also a hobby, that you can take up if you feel that you are not active enough at any age. It is surprising how much a little bit of extra exercise can help stave off stiff limbs and chubbiness.

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June 3, 2011

Satellite Radio Quality, Content And Availability

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 1:51 pm

Satellite radio has certainly taken off. It is very popular for two or three main reasons such as quality, content and availability. In the context of satellite radio, quality refers to the quality of sound that is capable of being reproduced by the equipment because of the signal; content refers to the kinds of programmes being transmitted by the different radio channels or stations and availability refers to the footprint or coverage of the satellite, that is how much area of land receives the signal from the satellite.

All these comparisons are made with terrestrial radio broadcasts obviously. For instance, we all know that typical AM or FM stations vary hugely in quality, the content can be heavily interspersed with advertising, jingles and inane chatter and coverage is normally only on a very local basis.

The two big players in the American satellite radio market are of course Sirius and XM and each one is attempting to out do the other in these three fields

Normally, satellite radio produces a quality of sound which is comparable to CD quality. This is extremely high, particularly if you use good quality equipment to replay the signal received. If you just replay satellite radio through tinny, ancient, blown speakers, then you will hardly benefit from this boost in quality at all.

Quality, content and coverage have all played a role in increasing the popularity of satellite radio, but it is probably content which has played the greatest part.

You may be wondering why anyone would want to pay for subscription radio, when there is so much free radio about. It is a fair question, but in fact, similarities can be made with cable TV and broadcast television. Why do people pay for that? Is it the sound quality? Or the content? Or what? A lot of cable TV is rubbish as well. Sports coverage, possibly.

At least the preponderance of satellite radio is free of commercials. That has to be worth a few dollars a month and it is in fact a large selling point. Many people cite the lack of commercials as one of their foremost reasons for moving to satellite radio.

It is likely that all big league sports coverage will move to subscription only over the next few years. This will inevitably be carried out with the utilization of satellite radio. American football, soccer, baseball, basketball will all either get their own nationwide stations or be bundled with other stations

People are fed up with the amount of advertising on AM and FM radio, but at the end of the day, the main reason whether to get satellite radio or not for most people rests on content not even so much on the quality of the sound. If sport is taken off terrestrial radio and only available on satellite radio, then people, especially men, will switch to satellite radio, which is precisely what happened with cable and satellite television.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a variety of subjects, but is currently involved with Bose alarm clocks. If you would like to kcurrently more, please visit our website at Bose Digital Radio.

June 2, 2011

First Aid For Camping

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:50 pm

Injuries occur even on the most well planned camping trips. You have to not only plan to avoid accidents, but you also have to plan on how to deal with them if and when they take place while camping. The important thing is to remember to remain calm. The worse thing you can do is get flustered.

You have to keep a clear head and just let your first aid training kick in. If you don’t have any first aid training then you should attend some classes before going camping. If you are not composed then you may not administer the correct treatment and this could just make it worse.

Three frequent ailments that befall campers are dehydration, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. To most individuals these all seem like the same ailments, and they are, but they each have to be treated in a different way. Confusing which treatment goes with which will not only slow down healing, but it could also cause damage. The foremost common problem when camping is dehydration. The best thing to do is just to keep yourself well hydrated with water.

You may drink nothing but lemonade and tea at home, but if you do that when camping you will quickly find yourself in a hospital room for dehydration. There are a few signs of dehydration besides the obvious thirst. Excessive sweating, rapid breathing, clammy skin, and loss of skin elasticity are all signs of dehydration. Children may also have hollow eyes when dehydrated.

If someone becomes dehydrated when you’re camping then you want to have them rest in the shade and drink plenty of cold water. You’ll also want them to remove any unnecessary clothing. Heat exhaustion is another widespread problem while camping. This is caused by not only too much heat, but can also be caused by too much humidity.

A person with heat exhaustion will have pale, clammy skin, rapid breathing, excessive sweating, thirst and nausea, headache, and exhaustion. Again you’ll want the individual to take a break from camping and completely rest with their feet elevated. Cool water and a shady place are a necessity.

You’ll even want to sponge the person with water. The third common camping complaint is heat stroke. Heat stroke is caused by your body not regulating body temperature correctly, causing your body to overheat. Symptoms are flushed, dry skin, a lack of sweat, rapid and weak pulse, irrational behavior, staggering, headache, and vomiting.

If not diagnosed early and treated this can also lead to a collapse, a seizure, a coma, and even death. If someone gets heat exhaustion while camping you need to get help immediately and get an ambulance. Have them rest in the shade with their head raised.

Use ice or cold water to cool them down and if they are aware make them drink. These three ailments are common while camping and should be watched for and treated right away.

First aid knowledge is essential when camping. Remember that water always helps, so have a lot of it with you at all times. If anything does happen on your camping expedition stay calm and remember what you’ve learned.

If he’s red raise his head, if he’s pale raise his tail, is a good rhyme to help you remember what to do if something happens while you’re camping. Stay cool and hydrated and you should be able to avoid problems like these on your camping trip.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on numerous subjects, but is at present busy with wholesale first aid kits. If you have an interest in RC vehicles, please come over to our website now at First Aid Courses Online.

May 30, 2011

The Football Association Challenge Cup

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:34 pm

The FA Cup, or Football Association Challenge Cup to give it its full title, is the oldest football competition in the world. It was started in 1871, when it was suggested that “a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association”.

Merely eight teams were entered for the first round which was played on the 11 November 1871. The final was played at the Oval on 16 March, 1872 and was won by The Wanderers who defeated The Royal Engineers by the only goal of the match.

Not only is the FA Cup the oldest association football competition in the world but it is also one of the biggest. It is open to teams who play on most degrees of the English football league system and during the 2009 – 2010 season, 762 teams entered the competition.

Because it is the one competition that mixes teams of all degrees of playing ability, it does allow for the occasional ?upset? when a ?minnow? from a lower league defeats one of the more fancied upper echelon teams.

While at least one such giant killing act will happen in any given season, no non-league club has ever won the tournament since Tottenham Hotspur won the trophy in 1901 while playing in the old Southern League.

For some reason, certain clubs seem to gain a reputation as giant killers and Yeovil Town holds the current record for most wins against teams playing in the league. There are several sporting records associated with the FA Cup, some of them standing for a considerable period of time .

One name connected with many early records is that of Lord Kinnaird. He played in the second final in 1873 and then played in a further eight, thereby setting up a record which still stands to this day of playing in nine finals. He played for the winning team no fewer than five times, another record which is still unbroken.

However he is also accredited with a less happy record, that of scoring the first ?own goal” in cup history in 1877. He was playing in goal and involuntarily stepped back over his own goal line.

In 1886 Blackburn Rovers were the second club to win three successive finals, and is the only club still in existence who can assert this feat as the first club to do so. The Wanderers went out of existence in 1883.

The record for the largest win in FA Cup history is held by Preston North End who in 1887 defeated Hyde 26-0. One of the longest standing sporting records was ultimately broken in 2009 by Everton?s Louis Saha whose 25 second goal beat that of the 30 second goal scored by Bob Chatt of Aston villa in 1895 . A record which had stood for 115 years!

After a timespan of seven years when the Cup final was played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, while the new Wembley Stadium was being rebuilt, The Cup Final has come back to its traditional home at Wembley where it has been played since 1923 when the famous ?White Horse? took place between Bolton and West Ham. This match also holds the record for people attendance when an estimated 200,000 fans crammed in.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is at present concerned with tickets for London Olympics. Click a link if you are interested in 2012 London Olympics Volunteers.

May 25, 2011

Stress Headaches And How To Treat Them

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 7:05 pm

We all get headaches from time to time, but do you know why you get those headaches? If you just have a headache from time to time, once every couple of of weeks or so, it is not much of a problem, but if you dread your next headache, then you almost certainly do have a problem.

Tension headaches are the most common and tension can be related to stress, but there are also purely stress-related headaches. This sort of headache can also be driven away by a tablet or two from the medicine cabinet, but it is better to get rid of the reason for the headache. Attack the reason not the symptom. The remainder of this piece is about what to do with the various kinds of stress headaches.

Basically, a stress headache happens once the obstacles that are presented to you overwhelm your ability to cope with them. Some people get on well with stress others handle stress less well. Some individuals even thrive on it and others have taught themselves how to de-stress rapidly.

When a person comes across stressful situations, a little bit of our mental resistance against stress is worn away. This is fine and is standard practice, but then as other stresses occur there is less and less defence left to carry on. Attempting to cope when you are beginning to feel weaker and weaker will frequently bring on a stress headache.

A different reason why a stress headache is the most common kind of headache, is because other forms of headache can bring on a stress headache too. The good news is that almost all forms of headaches can be prevented or cured and a stress headache falls into this category.

There are, naturally pharmaceutical medications to cure headaches and there are natural, home remedies as well but there are also non-medicinal methods of treating a stress headache. These other methods include: cognitive therapy, behavioural therapy and physical therapy.

These methods can be studied from books, night school groups, the local library, the Net or by arrangement with your clinic or medical doctor. It is well-worth learning how to employ these techniques because taking drugs or treatments can lead to headaches as well.

Cognitive Therapy: seeks to ‘redirect’ stress headaches. In this course of action, the patient is taught to recognize what begins the stress symptoms and what the onset of a stress headache feels like. Then they are taught how to modify their response to these conditions.

Behavioural Therapy: is a way of changing your life style to prevent the incidence of a stress headache. For example, numerous people reach for comfort foodstuffs or alcohol once they become stressed, but it may be better for you to do something else, |when you feel a stress headache coming on.

Physical Therapy: tries using bio-feedback responses, so that when a stress headache starts, the sufferer strives using relaxation techniques (perhaps yoga) in order to reduce their stress and possibly prevent the stress headache from occurring. Meditation, deep breathing and prayer are some of the other techniques that can be tried.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many subjects, but is at present busy with school first aid kits. If you have an interest in RC vehicles, please come over to our website now at First Aid Courses Online.

May 23, 2011

NBA Basketball

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:17 pm

NBA is the acronym for National Basketball Association. It is probably the most dynamic and well-liked basketball association in the world. One of the individuals who can take most of the credit for this is Michael Jordan who worked tirelessly on its behalf in the 1980′s and 1990′s.

The NBA is the leading professional, male basketball league of north America, which encompasses the USA and Canada. The NBA has the greatest players, pays the highest salaries and has the highest level of competition. At present there are thirty teams playing in the NBA, which are based in both Canada and the USA.

The NBA started life as the Basketball Association of America or BAA in 1946. It was set up in order to coordinate the top professional teams, to publicize them and to heighten their popularity.. The first BBA game was played between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers in Toronto. It changed its name to NBA in 1949.

The NBA grew gradually and attracted the best basketball talent in the world. In the early days there were such names as George Mikan – ‘the First Big Man’; Bob Cousey and Bill Russell Other great stars that followed were: Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Julius Erving, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.

Many of the top players came from the United States, but not all. Some were international players. Such players include players like: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Leandro Barbosa, Paul Gasol, Manu Ginobili and Dirk Nowitzki.

Others include Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs; Peja Stojakovic a Serb who won awards at home before moving to north America and the Russian, Andrei Kirilenko who was known as the AK-47. He also won European awards before moving to the States.

Yet other famous international players are Yao Ming who was selected for the Houston Rockets in 2002 and Andrea Bargnini who was picked to play for the Toronto Raptors in 2006.

The teams in the NBA are organized into two conferences with three divisions in each. 29 of these teams are based in the United States and one in Canada.

The Eastern Conference consists of the Atlantic Division, the Central Division and the Southeast Division.

The Atlantic Division has: the Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers and the Toronto Raptors.

The Central Division has:the Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks.

The Southeast has: the Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic and the Washington Wizards.

The Western Conference consists of the Northwest Division, the Pacific Division and the Southwest Division.

The Northwest Division has:the Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, NBA Oklahoma City, Portland Trailblazers, and Utah Jazz.

The Pacific Division has the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns and the Sacramento Kings.

The Southwest Division has: the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Hornets and San Antonio Spurs.

The NBA basketball league can now be watched all over the world by subscription on the Internet, although the Internet connection speed is too slow in some countries to make it viable.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is at present involved with London Olympics 2012 venues. Click a link if you are interested in 2012 London Olympics Volunteers.

May 21, 2011

The Origins of Baseball

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 10:46 am

Much has been written about the history and birth of the sport of baseball and disagreement has surrounded the subject for over a century.There has long been a legend, once extensively believed by many Americans, that baseball was made-up by one Abner Doubleday in 1839.

However there never has been a single scrap of evidence to support this assertion, which was in fact never supported by Doubleday himself. There is a large quantity of documentary evidence left by him including letters and nowhere is there mention of the game of baseball, or that he thought he played any major part in the development of the game.

In fact, baseball (and softball), as well as the other modern bat, ball and running games, cricket and rounders, was evolved from earlier folk games. Baseball probably originated in Britain, but similar games were played in many regions of Europe such as a game similar to the British rounders. It was called schlagball and was played in Germany.

Russians had played a bat and ball game known as lapta since medieval times, while In Romania they played a version called Oina. There is very little information as to how the contemporary game of baseball developed from these previous types of ballgames .

There is one school of thought that holds that they evolved into a game called town ball which was the forerunner of baseball. Although others believe that town ball and baseball are autonomous developments. The real ?father of American baseball? was not Abner Doubleday but one Shane Ryley Foster, who formulated the first printed rules of baseball in 1845 for a New York (Manhattan) base ball club called the Knickerbockers.

However on June 3, 1953, Congress officially recognized Alexander Cartwright with inventing the modern game of baseball, and he was also voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Alexander Cartwright was a New York bookseller who umpired the first-ever recorded U.S. baseball game with codified rules in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19, 1846.

He also founded the older of the two teams that played that day, the New York Knickerbockers. Cartwright later became contaminated by ?gold Fever? and emigrated to California, introducing the game of baseball to a lot of of the cities he stopped at on his way to California..

In 1857 a conference was held to update the old rules laid down for the Knickerbocker club and delegates came from sixteen clubs in New York. In 1858, twenty-five teams including one from New Jersey came together to form the National Association of Base Ball Players . It governed until 1870 but arranged and endorsed no games.

During and after the American Civil War, the movements of soldiers and exchanges of prisoners helped spread the game. In 1869 the first openly professional baseball team was formed. Earlier players were nominally amateurs.

The Cincinnati Red Stockings recruited nationally and effectively toured the country. No one defeated them until June 1870. After 1870, more and more professional teams were formed and the era of the game that we know and love today was started.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on many topics, but is currently involved with London Olympics 2012 venues. Click a link if you are interested in 2012 London Olympics Volunteers.

May 20, 2011

The Importance Of First Aid For The Workplace

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 12:08 pm

If you own a firm, you are almost certainly required by law to supply some form of First Aid to your employees. There may well be laws governing what degree of service you have to supply, but if there are not, this article will endeavour to help you work out a sensible approach to the question. However, whichever way you look at it, the provision of First Aid in the workshop is very important.

There are in essence four reasons involved in the equation: the administerer of the First Aid, the First Aid kit, the First Aid room and the First Aid apparatus. The causes influencing the above components are: the type of industry you are in, the number of workers, the sort of shifts and your distance from the closest hospital.

The shift factor is vital because you will have to supply a health care worker (at least one) for each shift. If there are employees from many subcontractors on site (such as on a building site) the main contractor ought to supply health care for all the workers on site and make a charge to the bosses of the subcontractors’ companies.

Any agreements between workers and employers and main and sub-contractors should be put in on paper and signed by all parties involved. These agreements should then by photocopied and distributed to everyone concerned.

The employer ought to provide a notice in various prominent locations throughout the site or factory giving information about where the closest trained First Aider is and his or her name. The trained individual should be healthy, responsible, normally at work and be able to leave his or her workstation immediately when required to help.

The First Aiders should receive training from a recognized body and a certificate of competence should be given. If possible, the training should be given in your own workshop so that the trainers can observe any local hardships.

The First Aider ought to get trained in writing records. For example, although the First aider’s obligation ceases when the paramedics arrive, the supplier of First Aid should make and be able to furnish a record of any therapy given before their arrival.

The First Aid box should be maintained regularly. Items that have passed their sell-by-date should be disposed of and replaced and someone has to be given the obligation for doing this and signing a register to say that the inspection has taken place. There ought to be a First Aid box within a few minutes walk of perilous locations like machinery

The kits should contain all standard things such as antiseptic, plasters, bandages, safety pins, scissors, iodine et cetera, but they should also contain remedies specific to your industry, if there are any. It is also a good idea to put a First Aid data sheet in the box simply in case it is not the trained First Aider who has to supply the help.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many subjects, but is currently concerned with school first aid kits. If you have an interest in RC vehicles, please go over to our website now at First Aid Courses Online.

May 19, 2011

The Beautiful Game

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 11:59 am

Football, soccer or ?The Beautiful Game? – are all names employed to describe the most well-liked team game in the world. Although the words football and soccer are largely interchangeable in the UK they have quite different meanings in North America.

In the USA the word ‘football’ is taken to mean American Football, a game more akin to the British rugby football, whereas soccer refers to the game known to the rest of the world as football.

It is peculiar that the word soccer is in fact an English slang term of the word association in the same fashion that the word ?brekkers? refers to breakfast.

The regulations of football were first set down in 1863 by the Football Association in the UK and these are in essence the same rules by which the game is played by today. However they were merely the first endeavour to codify and standardize the vastly varying types of the game being played in 19th century public schools in England.

However the game has a much longer history and references to a game comparable to today?s football can be found in the texts of one William Fitzstephen in the late 12th century. At various times during the medieval period edicts were passed prohibitting the playing of football, largely, it is supposed, because it detracted from the time dedicated to archery practice.

So it could be said that England?s supremacy in France at battles such as Crecy and Agincourt , brought around largely as a result of the success of Welsh and English longbowmen, was a direct result of deficiency of expertise on the football pitch!

Football also fell foul of Puritan censorship and attempts to keep the Sabbath holy as naturally the only time a working man had any free time to indulge in such activity was on a Sunday (the Sabbath)

Incidentally, the term ?the Beautiful Game as a synonym for Association football has no vast history to it. Its origins are rather disputed as some claim that it was invented by a Brazilian footballer named Valdir Pereira although the English TV commentator Stuart Hall claims to have coined the expression in 1958.

From its primitive beginnings football has now grown into the world?s most commonly played team sport. F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA as it is more commonly known , now has 208 member countries where an estimated 200 million plus players habitually play the game.

Such is the impact of football that star players from the major European leagues and especially the English Premiership are now household names the world wide and it is common while driving through a remote jungle village in South East Asia to become confronted by a larger than life size portrait of say, David Beckham, advertising something as routine to motor oil.

Little did those men meeting at the Freemasons Tavern in Great Queen St,. London on the morning of 26 October 1863 to set the rules of the game know the extraordinary world wide effect their decisions would make.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on several subjects, but is at present involved with London Olympics 2012 venues. Click a link if you are interested in 2012 London Olympics Volunteers.

May 16, 2011

The Importance of Knowing and Using First Aid

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:36 pm

There is an importance of knowing how to give first aid or CPR. Taking a class on first aid can be done at a local community center or hospital. When taking such a class, these are the items an individual will most likely learn. As an individual learns what to do in their first aid class, they will be taught the A-B-C?s of first aid.

Now, this does not mean A-B-C as in bullet points, no, this is a mnemonic saying. So, whilst administering first aid to anybody, they ought to be getting help from a trained person for clearing their Airway, Breathing properly or Circulation in their heart.

An airway which is blocked has to be attended to immediately. Being able to clear anyone?s airway is important for supporting their life. If the airway is not open, it will most likely affect that person?s mind and body functions. In turn, this will cause a sudden deterioration of that person?s life.

As you can see, having an open airway permits a person to react to you and sustain their life. The open airway also keeps oxygen flowing to the brain. Without oxygen to our brain, there may be permanent damage as well. Just as vital as opening a person?s airway is, so too is getting them to breathe again.

These two facets, airway and breathing, might seem the same to you, but they have two different functions for a first aid responder to achieve. When it comes to breathing, that person will require some help. When the airway is open, they may not be breathing in the right manner.

Having a person breathe, on their own, is equally as vital as having an open airway. Both of these functions require the passage of oxygen to the brain and this is why the objective of a first aid responder is to help that person breathing again without assistance.

Just as important as opening the airway and breathing is, so also is allowing circulation to the heart. The human heart is an astounding muscle but when a person?s heart is in trouble, they will need urgent care in order to make certain that they stay alive.

If the human heart is not getting oxygen and beating as intended, there may be a loss of life. Every step given to an injured person, from a first aid responder, is vital. Every action received, in the order given, is also vital.

All three A-B-C measures above, having been learned in a CPR class, and then used as trained by a first aid responder is necessary to the survival of the injured person. In fact, seeing if a person has a pulse and is breathing is the first thing to be done when helping a person in trouble.

As recently as 2010, the American Heart Association requested that the A-B-C?s be converted to C-A-B. Now, when performing first aid on an adult, it is recommended to do chest compressions first, and then see if the airway is open and if a person can breathe on their own. The original A-B-C?s can still be utilized on infants and children.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on many subjects, but is at present concerned with wholesale first aid kits. If you have an interest in RC vehicles, please come over to our website now at First Aid Courses Online.

History Of American Football

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 9:53 am

Although there are mentions of Native Americans playing ball games, contemporary American football has its origins in long-established ball games played in villages and schools in Europe for several centuries before America was settled by Europeans.

There are stories of early settlers at Jamestown, Virginia playing games with inflated balls in the the first part of the 17th century.

The first games seem to have had much in common with the traditional “mob football” played in England, especially on Shrove Tuesday. The games were pretty much unorganized until the 19th century, when a lot of colleges took up the sport.

In those days, each school played its own kind of football. Princeton students played a game called “ballown” as early as 1820. A Harvard tradition known as “Bloody Monday” began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore students.

Dartmouth played its own version called “Old Division Football”, the rules of which were first published in 1871, although the game dates to at least the 1830s. All of these games, and others, shared certain rules.

They remained largely “mob” type games, with huge numbers of players attempting to advance the ball into a goal area, often by any means necessary. The rules were uncomplicated and violence and injury were common .

The violence of these mob-style games led to extensive protests and a decision to abandon them. Yale, under pressure from the city of New Haven, proscribed the play of all forms of football in 1860, while Harvard did the same in 1861

Two basic forms of football had developed by this time: “kicking” games and “running” (or “carrying”) games. A cross of the two, known as the “Boston game”, was played by a group known as the Oneida Football Club.

The club, thought of by some historians as the first formal football club in the United States, was formed in 1862 by schoolboys who played the “Boston game” on Boston Common.

Walter Camp is widely thought to be the most important figure in the development of American football. He thought of many of the rule changes and playing tactics which made American Football the inimitable sport that it has become today.

His first proposal was to reduce the number of players from 15 to 11. The effect of this was to open up the game and put more emphasis on speed rather than strength.

Camp’s most famous change, the establishment of the line of scrimmage, was also designed to speed up play although many teams used it to slow down the play.

Camp therefore suggested that a team be required to progress the ball a minimum of five yards within three downs. These down-and-distance rules, combined with the creation of the line of scrimmage, changed the game from a variation of rugby or soccer into the distinct sport of American football.

While it has had a protracted history as a college sport, professional football is a relatively modern institution . The first completely professional game was not played until 1895 and the first known professional league, the National Football League was not formed until 1902

At the end of the 1932 season, the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans tied with the best regular-season records. To determine the champion, the league chose to hold its first playoff game.

Chicago won, 9-0. The playoff proved so popular that the league was restructured into two divisions for the 1933 season, with the two winners advancing to a scheduled championship game.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on several subjects, but is currently concerned with London Olympics 2012 venues. Click a link if you are interested in 2012 London Olympics Volunteers.

May 11, 2011

English Soccer Teams’ Nicknames

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:06 am

A review of the nicknames used by English football teams reveals a beguiling insight into English social history over the last 150 years.

All football teams seem to acquire a nickname, bestowed upon them lovingly by their devoted fans. Although in one very famous case ? that of Manchester United ? the nickname of The Red Devils was in fact invented by the club itself as a marketing ploy, copyrighted and finally the Red Devil himself was incorporated in the team’s coat of arms.

The derivation of the name may seem obvious, or may be lost in the mists of time or even not known today.

In many cases the nickname is derived from the colour of the team?s shirts. Obvious examples of these include:

Chelsea – The Blues Burnley – the Clarets Watford – the Hornets Preston North End – The Lilywhites Liverpool – The Reds Newcastle United – The Magpies Coventry City – The Sky Blues Blackpool United – the Tangerines Weymouth – The Terras Cambridge United – the Yellows Hull City – the Tigers

Other nicknames are far more prosaic in origin, being based upon abbreviations or contractions of the team?s real name. Examples of these cases include :

Middlesbrough – Boro Rochdale – the Dale Gillingham – the Gills Wigan Athletic – the Latics Queens Park Rangers – QPR Blackburn Rovers – The Rovers Aldershot Town – The Shots Shrewsbury Town – The Shrews Tottenham Hotspur – Spurs Swansea City – The Swans Woverhampton Wanderers – Wolves

Location plays an important part in a lot of team nicknames

Sunderland – The Black Cats (named after the Black cat gun battery which was located on the banks of the River Wear) Bournemouth – The Cherries (the stadium was built on the site of a cherry orchard) Carlisle United – The Cumbrians (Carlisle is in the county of Cumbria) Bristol Rovers – The Gas ( their old ground was situated next to the gasworks) Torquay United – The Gulls (Torquay is beside the sea) Tamworth – The Lambs ( the team plays at The Lamb Ground, named after a local pub) Grimsby Town – The Mariners (Grimsby is on the coast) Rotherham United – The Millers ( the pitch is called Millmoor) Sheffield Wednesday – The Owls ( they play in an area of Sheffield known as Owlerton) Kettering Town – The Poppies ( their stadium was built on a poppy field) Blackburn Rovers – The Riversiders (their site is built on the banks of a river) Bolton Wanderers – The Trotters (in the 19th century the ground was situated next to a piggery)

Other nicknames are derived from local occupations or industries:

Sheffield United ? The Blades ( local links with cutlery manufacture) Burton Albion ? The Brewers ( Burton is a foremost centre for the brewing industry ) Hereford United ? The Bulls (from the local cattle industry) Wycombe Wanderers ? The Chairboys ( local furniture industry) Northampton Town ? The Cobblers (from the regional boot and shoe industry) Yeovil Town ? The Glovers (local links to the glove making industry ) Luton Town ? The Hatters (Luton was for many years a centre for the production of hats) Crewe Alexander ? The Railwaymen ( Crewe was built as a railway town

Finally, a short assortment of some of the more amusing, bizarre and obtuse derivations:

Charlton Athletic – The Addicks ( A corruption of the ward ?haddocks? after a local fish and chip shop) Norwich City – The Canaries ( Norwich was a leading centre for the breeding of canaries. The team later adopted the green and yellow of the Norwich Canary as their playing strip) Hartlepool United – The Monkey Hangers (During the Napoleonic wars the citizens of Hartlepool allegedly hung a monkey believing it to be a French spy) Bury – The Shakers (The first Chairman of the club, J T Ingham said before a local derby game against Blackburn ?We will shake them, in fact we are the Shakers?) Peterborough United – The Posh (A previous manager of the team is reputed to have said ?We are looking for posh players for a posh team?)

We hope this trawl though the history behind the nicknames of English football teams has been amusing and enlightening.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on many subjects, but is at present involved with London Olympics 2012 venues. Click a link if you are interested in 2012 London Olympics Volunteers.

Snow Boarding Safety

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:45 am

Safety is a very necessary aspect of snow boarding not only to avoid injury to yourself but also to ensure the safety of innocent bystanders. Snow boarding safety should be the prime concern for all snow boarders, because it is considered an extreme sport and therefore more dangerous than usual.

So, in the interests of safety for snow boarders and their spectators, I have put a number of safety tips together below.

The first thing to do is to verify the quality of the snow board. Look for damage and particularly cracks and splits. The board comes under a great deal of stress whilst in use and you do not need it to disintegrate when you are travelling at speed.

When inspecting the board, check that it is the correct size for you – in other words, is there adequate room for you to put your feet on it comfortably? Using the correct size board will allow you to exercise your skill without impediment.

After making certain that the snow board is good enough, you ought to make certain that you have the right protective clothing. One obvious concern is staying warm and another is being able to see where you are going. When you are travelling at high speeds, small flecks of snow and debris can be very painful and even blind you temporarily, so make sure that you are wearing protective goggles.

However, the goggles should be of a sufficient safety standard, say, polycarbonate, and should also offer UV protection – UVa, UVb and UVc, if possible. Oakley manufacture safety glasses and goggles of this calibre.

Make sure that your underwear is warm and then it will not matter too much what outer clothing you don as long as it is waterproof and tear-resistant. Make sure that you are well padded, so that whenever you take that inevitable fall, there is less chance of you breaking bones.

Next, ensure that your inner body is adequately taken care of. Exercising in the snow and staying warm requires the expenditure of energy, so be certain that you have some. Although it is not recommended that you eat heartily immediately before exercising for fear of cramps, you do have to have consumed something with calories in it and you should make certain that your body is adequately hydrated.

Think about taking some emergency supplies with you as well. Snow boarding is a dangerous sport so it is easily possible that you could suffer a bad fall and have to wait for an emergency rescue, which can take a while and the weather could turn foul, so have some energy-rich chocolate and cereal bars on your person. You can eat snow to make water, but you might like to take a litre of water with you anyway.

And last, but not least, take a cell phone with you – one that has GPS, so that you can accurately phone your location to the rescue services if you have to.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many topics, but is now concerned with Oakley safety glasses. If you would like to know more, please visit our site at Safety Glasses Bifocal

May 10, 2011

Why You Should Install A Pool Alarm

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 6:50 am

Do you own a swimming pool or are you thinking of having one fitted? If so, then it is recommended that you have a pool alarm fitted too. You could be wondering if you really need such an alarm, but all will be revealed in the rest of this piece. A pool alarm can be incorporated into your present burglar alarm system, if it is flexible enough.

One of the reasons for installing a pool alarm is that it may be required by law, national or local. Numerous kids have been drowned skinny dipping in a neighbour’s pool when they are away on vacation.

Some local authorities insist on putting up fences, but they are basically ineffectual, so the move is towards pool alarms. This does not really have to be costly because most people who can afford a pool will have a home alarm system already.

If your local authority does not have requirements for alarms already, it might be worth checking out what legislation is in the pipeline. Most of the contemporary pool alarms are activated whilst there is a disturbance at water level, so they are good for deterring night-time aquatic intruders.

However, of course does not merely warn about interlopers, sometimes people fall into the pool because they are drunk. The alarm will allow you to rescue them. It will also warn about children falling into the pond, which is a continuous source of anxiety for parents with pools.

Because a lot of pool owners are no longer young and their children are grown up, they frequently wonder why they need to secure their pool. Well, one good reason, besides saving lives, is that it can reduce your insurance premium. To be blunt, it shows that you are doing your best and so reduces your legal responsibility.

Pool safety devices are easy to install, particularly if you already have a warning device, scanners and siren installed on your property. For most people who can afford a pool, the price of an alarm is off-set against the peace of mind that it will deliver is fairly negligible.

While you go searching for a pool alarm, there are lots of places for you to look, but the best place to try first of all is the supplier of your existing home security system. This is because they will be the best people to be able to integrate the two systems so that you do not have two sets of sirens, two sets of detectors and two sets of everything else.

Once you have had a pool alarm installed, you have one further moral obligation and that is to make sure that it works. This is easy. Set your alarm and jump into the water. Reset the alarm and walk up to your pool. In both circumstances, the pool alarm should have been triggered.

You should check your alarm every month or two in conjunction with checking your existing home security system. This is a necessary precautionary step, because you cannot expect items to keep working for years without requiring some maintenance.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on various subjects, but is now involved with speedo swimming costumes. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Swimwear for Big Busts.

May 9, 2011

Skiing In Modern Croatia: Where To Go

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 7:28 am

Twenty or thirty years ago, no-one in their correct mind would have gone to Croatia, unless they were in the army, but that has all changed. These days, Croatia is part of the European Union and is much more hospitable to tourists.

One of the tourist activities that Croatia is building its reputation on is skiing. It is a warmer country than northern France, Switzerland and Scandinavia, so it is feasible to take a skiing vacation in the mountains and finish the holiday off with a week at the seaside.

One of the best skiing regions to visit is Zagreb and in particular Bjelolasica, which is where the Croatian Olympic skiing team trains. The facilities in this area are excellent and the prices are a lot cheaper than you would pay in either in the French or in the Swiss Alps or in Scandinavia. In fact Croatia offers great skiing facilities at a very affordable cost.

The Croatian skiing community is of very high standard and they know that they have to compete with the history of the more famous French and Swiss ski resorts so they really pull all the stops out to make certain that the tourists and sports people that come to their country derive value for money and would like to come back again.

They realize that word of mouth advertising is the best and the cheapest form of advertising that you can get.

Another well-liked Croatian skiing destination is Platak. Platak is located nearer the Adriatic and is a little more expensive than Bjelolasica because it is a bit cut off, but it only depends where you would like to go and what you want to do.

Platak is a good all round skiing resort which has plans for improvements on a vast scale. During the coming years, Platak will have more ski slopes of different levels of difficulty and more hotels and chalets of all price ranges.

You would be forgiven for thinking that there might be a language barrier in Croatia and to be honest there can be, but the ski resorts are all staffed by people who have studied most of the common European languages. It shows how much can be done in twenty years if the government and the populace have the right and the same point of view.

Croatia has a very diverse cuisine, so tourists and skiers from all over the world ought to be able to find plenty of suitable food and drink. Croatia has a border with Hungary and their wine is very drinkable. All in all, Croatia offers decent skiing facilities at a knock down price, but just how long they will be able to offer these excellent facilities at these attractive prices remains to be seen.

If you are a serious skier, it could be worth going to Croatia and purchasing a time-share or some other sort of accommodation now before the inevitable price rise when the rest of Europe realizes how cheap skiing in Croatia really is.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a number of subjects, but is now involved with short ski breaks. If you would like to know more, please go over to our website at Ski Package Holidays.

May 8, 2011

Deep Sea Diving: The Importance Of Trimix

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:45 am

One of the most important aspects of scuba diving that a diver has to study is how to set up the breathing tank. Divers do not use oxygen in their tanks, they use (or, increasingly, used to use) compressed air. However air is roughly 70 percent nitrogen and 30 percent oxygen and the nitrogen can cause nitrogen sickness under pressure, so more and more divers are turning to Nitrox.

Nitrox is not air, but it is still composed solely of nitrogen and oxygen, although not in the same percentages, which you can vary. The problem with raising the amount of oxygen in the mix is that there is a greater chance of suffering from oxygen poisoning the deeper you go. Therefore, the trade off is that the more oxygen you use, the shallower you are allowed to swim.

It sounds like a rough decision, you can suffer from either nitrogen or oxygen toxicity, take your pick. However, there is a third option and it is known as Trimix. Trimix is the ‘air’ that deep sea divers make use of. It is a mixture of three gases, as its name implies: nitrogen oxygen and helium.

Helium is used as a kind of filler. It does not do us any injury and it does not do us any good either, but it allows divers to take a lung full and it reduces the volume of nitrogen and the volume of oxygen thereby reducing the likelihood of sickness.

The only problem with helium is that it conducts heat five times more than oxygen and nitrogen. This leads some deep sea divers to suffer from a condition known as hyperbaric arthralgia. Hyperbaric arthralgia is a kind of joint pain that a number of divers experience as they go deeper than 100 feet in salt water.

Deep sea divers have to learn about the various Trimixes as part of their course, because one day they will be accountable for choosing the mix they use. The option is not just compressed air, nitrox and Trimix, because there are different ratios of the gases in Trimix to take into the equation as well.

For example, a 10/70 Trimix will be composed of 10 percent oxygen, 70 percent helium (and 20 percent nitrogen). This kind of mix is appropriate for diving to a depth of 330 feet in salt water or 100 msw (metres in salt water). Fresh water is a little lighter than salt water. This does not matter at lower depths, but it does after a hundred feet.

Breathing and gases are merely one aspect of diving that you will have to master if you want to go diving. Another aspect of diving that is associated with diving is the rate of ascent. Divers used to get taught not to rise faster than their smallest bubbles, which is about 60 feet per minute. However, lots of instructors now think that this is still quite fast and recommend 30 feet per minute with a three minute wait at 15 feet.

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May 7, 2011

RC Car Racing As A Sport Or Hobby

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 10:45 am

RC car racing stands for the radio controlled racing of model cars. The models come in several types: they can be fantasy models or scale models of actual cars and trucks. After that, you can buy RC cars and trucks in various sizes or scales, the most well-liked being 1:9 to 1:12, but there are also huge models of 1:5. The third variable is the engine; electric, nitro or petrol.

Whatever sort of RC car you have, the kick of racing it is the same. Most individuals find the sport of RC car racing thrilling. Racing RC cars provides most of the thrills and spills of conventional car racing but without the risk to human life.

There are also different kinds of races ranging from racing around a circuit to cross-country, all-terrain racing.

Radio controlled racing cars are controlled by a games-style hand-set with a joystick on it. Your commands are transmitted to a receiver on board the vehicle by means of a radio. Some consoles can transmit quite complicated commands whilst others just steer the model.

Likewise, the models can be simple ‘go or not’, steerable racing vehicles or they can be nearly exact replicas of the real thing with replica suspension systems, lights and everything else deal. These super models are normally hand-made by enthusiasts. Most individuals buy either a finished model or a kit.

Children love the sport of RC car racing, but otherwise the sport appeals to men and women of all ages. The sport is still dominated by males, but more and more females of all ages are being drawn to the sport of RC car racing every year as well.

One of the good things about the sport of RC car racing is that it is simple to get going but there is also lots of scope to expand your interest if (or when) the bug bites. You might begin with a fundamental battery-powered 1:12 scale fantasy model, but soon move onto a 1:9 nitro-powered replica racing car or even a monster 1:5 scale model with a real petrol engine. You might even start building your own models

If you would like to get involved with the thrilling sport of RC car racing, it is simple enough. The best way to start is to get some information before you purchase your first RC car. You can do this by purchasing an RC car magazine, joining a model car club and/or by going to a few model car races.

RC enthusiasts love talking about their sport and most of them would be willing to reply to your questions. Whilst deciding on your preferred type of model, bear its maintenance in mind. You can hugely prolong the life of your RC model with proper maintenance, so you ought to purchase a car that you are able to look after.

If the first car or truck that you buy is not actually what you wanted, but it matches your level of skill, do not worry, there is always a learning curve with a new sport or hobby and as your competence increases you will be able to purchase one of the larger, more powerful, more complex models.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many subjects, but is currently involved with gas remote control cars. If you have an interest in model or toy rc vehicles, please go over to our website now at 1/5 Scale RC Cars

Skiing In The French Alps – Some Basics

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Most people dream of going away on vacation to somewhere warm or even hot, however there are some who seek out the cold and the snow so that they can go skiing. It is true, many if not most of those who go skiing in the winter can also afford a summer break somewhere warm too. Skiing in the French Alps is one of the favourite choices of novice and experienced skiers alike.

But what if you cannot ski at all and want to learn? Well, you could go the French Alps anyway and learn there or you could learn the fundamentals at home, perhaps on an all-weather slope, so that you receive full value for money when you arrive in France. There are quite a number of all-weather nylon slopes dotted around most Western countries, normally located at leisure centres.

If you learned how to get dressed, the basic moves and the safety aspects of skiing and being on snow, than you could get on with learning better techniques from the experts at the French Alps resort after you get there. This way you will not miss out on the fantastic skiing in the French Alps, which along with the Swiss Alps, which it adjoins, is one of the best regions for skiing in the world.

Learning how to come to a halt is a good idea, but before you can practice your stopping technique, you have to be moving, which can be fairly scary. This and health and safety codes are the first things that you will be taught when you take lessons either at home or in the Alps.

Knowing that you know how to come to a halt gives you the confidence to get you going and practicing other techniques like turning. You see, one of the difficulties with skiing is the novices, they tend to get in the way, so you have to look out for them and learn how to come to a halt before hitting them or how to go around them.

There are normally at least a number of types of slopes at these French alpine resorts ranging from gentle slopes for beginners to steeper, faster courses with obstacles like trees and rocks for practiced skiers. The weather can alter in an amazingly short time even within an hour, however at the best times of the year, the weather is normally pretty warm from about 10 AM until 2 PM.

This allows you time for a pre-breakfast walk, a relaxed breakfast and four hours on the slopes, before lunch and apres-ski activity. The evenings’ entertainment is legendary, which is another good reason for a late beginning. French food and drink is world renowned and the food and drink in the French Alps is no exception.

Skiing is fairly physical and necessitates the aspirant skier to be fit and strong. Therefore, if you have let yourself go a bit, you may think it prudent to visit a gym for a couple of weeks before your holiday to get back into shape.

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Celebrated British Caricaturists – Part One

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This list includes both British born artists and those who were born elsewhere but did the majority of their most important drawings in the U.K. The selection is listed in chronological order by date of birth.

William Hogarth (1697 ? 1764)

He was born in London and apprenticed to an engraver where he studied his trade. He became a painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist and has been accredited with pioneering sequential art or the cartoon strip.

His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures known as “contemporary moral subjects”. His most famous works are no doubt ? The Harlot?s Progress and ?The Rake?s Progress?.

Isaac Cruickshank ( 1756 – 1811)

Cruickshank was a Scottish painter and caricaturist who was born in Edinburgh. Cruikshank’s first known publications were etchings of Edinburgh “types”, from 1784.

His water colours were exhibited, but in order to make a living it was found that it was more profitable to produce prints and caricatures. He was responsible in part for creating the figure of John Bull, the nationalistic representation of a solid British yeoman.

Isaac Cruikshank was a contemporary of James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, and he was part of what has been known as “the Golden Age of British Caricature.

Thomas Rowlandson ( 1756 – 1827)

Thomas Rowlandson was an English painter and caricaturist. He was born in London and after he finished school he studied at the Royal Academy. He was considered a promising student and if he had sustained his early diligence he would have made his mark as an artist.

But he inherited ?7,000 from a French aunt and dived into the dissipations of the town (he was known to sit at the gambling-table for 36 hours at a stretch).

He soon squandered his inheritance but the comradeship and examples of James Gillray and Henry William Bunbury seem to have recommended caricature as a way of filling his stomach and purse.

He also created a collection of erotic prints and woodcuts, lots of which would these days be thought of as pornographic .

James Gillray (1757 – 1815)

James Gillray was a British caricaturist and printmaker who gained great fame for his etched political and social satires, mainly in print between 1792 and 1810.

Some of his best known caricatures were directed at the Royal Family and George III in particular. He is also accountable for probably the most famous political cartoon of all time.

It was entitled ?The Plum Pudding in Danger? . It was printed in 1805 and depicts Pitt and Napoleon carving up the plum pudding of Europe.

By 1811, madness, no doubt made worse by his excessive life-style, was overtaking him and he passed away in 1815.

George Cruickshank ( 1792 – 1878)

George Cruickshank was born in London, the son of the famous caricaturist Isaac Cruickshank and started his working career as apprentice to his father.

He later started out as a caricaturist in his own right and was even paid ?100 in return for a promise not to caricature George IV In later life he switched to book illustrating and illustrated ?Sketches by Boz? and ?Oliver Twist? for Charles Dickens.

After developing palsy he died in 1878. Punch in his obituary said ?There never was a purer, simpler, more straightforward or altogether more blameless man. His nature had something childlike in its transparency.”

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Office Stress

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 8:37 am

Office stress is a very frequent occurrence. Office stress comes about because of the pressures of the work, which is frequently not so easy to define, particularly in a small firm. In a large office, jobs are quite clearly defined and everybody knows what they are responsible for.

In a small office though, the few members of staff often have to cover a dozen or so different jobs and so office stress can build up. Office stress can build up rapidly if the boss is unsympathetic or a member of a small office team goes off pregnant or sick whether a temporary stand-in is found or not.

Office stress is a very real phenomenon especially in a small business. For example, it is not uncommon for a company with $1 annual turnover to be managed by a staff of two – the office manager and a secretary. This means that the office manager has to be able to do each job and it is hoped that the secretary will be able to do most of them too. This creates office stress.

The secretary-cum-assistant will need to understand filing, typing, word-processing, data entry for book-keeping software, how to read job sheets, time sheets and invoices. The secretary will also have to welcome visitors, but keep sales people at bay, while staying polite.

The secretary will also have to have good phone manners and be able to reply to enough questions to be able to shield the manager from time wasters and deal with serious questions if the manager is not in. These jobs are difficult enough on their own, but office stress builds up if you find yourself trying to do three jobs at once and that is not uncommon.

You could be entering time sheet data the manager has gone to visit site, when the phone rings with an inquiry and a potential client comes in looking for a quote. This is enough to make office stress soar.

The manager will also need to be able to carry out these tasks, but the office supervisor will also be responsible for management accounts, pay, job costing, pricing, writing letters and keeping up with the law as the Company Secretary, which means that he/she will have to know enough about employment law to give advice to the directors.

This leads to terrific office stress. Besides all this, the office manager is usually responsible for paying and collecting taxes and keeping up with regulations and employment law. In these days of litigation and government claw backs, mistakes in any legal field are punished with expensive fines or compensation claims. This degree of responsibility also just increases the level of office stress.

The difficulty is that office stress, like most types of stress, leads to tension and irritability and irritability can lead to a short fuse and flashes of temper, which just goes to worsen the situation and raise the degree of office stress another peg.

The degrees of office stress soar if an important piece of office equipment breaks down, because it is always just as you need it. Because it can take hours or even days to get it repaired, you are expected to be able to carry out minor repairs yourself. And then if the boss is an unsympathetic or just unlikeable person then the level of office stress can get even worse.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is currently concerned with First Aid trainer courses. If you have an interest in RC vehicles, please come over to our website now at First Aid Courses Online.

May 6, 2011

Swimming Pool Accessories

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:49 am

Millions of people love to swim in their gardens about the world. Swimming and playing in the water is immense fun, even if you have to go to a pond, pool, a river or the sea to do it. in order to make full use of a garden pool, you really have to live in a place where the weather is warm. The owner also needs to have some money as pool maintenance charges are high.

Therefore, when people have gone to the trouble of having a garden pool installed, they also like to have the pool used as frequently or as much as possible. You can encourage your friends and family to use the pool more often by making it more fun and more comfortable to do so. Pool accessories or swimming accessories are a means of achieving this.

People like to be in the water, so you could make it easy for them by using poolside furniture that will float while supporting an adult. There are various objects like floating chairs, floating tables and plastic inflatable lidos that will keep you and your guests in contact with the water. Good floating furniture will also support people out of the water, cheap stuff will not.

If you like the concept of floating in your pool whilst sitting on a seat reading a book, this sort of furniture is for you. Many of these chairs have an in-built glass holder and float so that your waist is at the water line, although this just depends on the chair and the person sitting in it.

Then there are floating sun loungers which do roughly the same thing as a floating chair, except they tend to keep your whole body out of the water so that you can get an even sun tan. Inflatable lidos or rafts are similar items, although the inflatable lido or camp bed is a very cheap item compared with the more solid floating seats and loungers.

Other items that you could use to raise the enjoyment of your garden pool are aquatic games. You could string up a water polo net or a water volley ball net in order to get people moving. Beach balls are another good idea for encouraging play in the pool. If you are on your own, you could just float around in an inflated truck tyre. They are very comfortable and very cheap.

If you are dead set on relaxation at your pool, you could build a poolside bar. The bar stools could be in the water, if your pool is large enough, otherwise you could incorporate the pool bar into a breakfast bar where you can prepare and eat light meals. Weighty meals are not good for swimmers anyway.

Pool accessories or swimming accessories will intensify your enjoyment of your pool and make your friends and family wait for you next invitation to come over for a swim impatiently. Most of these devices do not have to be costly either.

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May 4, 2011

Scuba Diving vacations In Hawaii

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 9:20 am

Hawaii is a gorgeous location, we have all seen the films and the vacation photographs. The above ground scenery is stunning, but what not so many individuals know is that the sub-aqua scenery is just as striking. The good thing is that you do not have to know exactly where to go to enjoy diving because the diving is good everywhere on the islands.

Not merely is the sub-aqua scenery beautiful, but the water is warm too – all year through. You will find millions of fish, aquatic flora, coral and ship wrecks, everything that divers like to look at. There will never be a diver that regrets having gone on a diving vacation in Hawaii.

Would be divers can best study the hobby in Oahu. There are plenty of diving schools and instructors there that have the power to award a diving certificate after a day or two’s tuition. This is very fast, but the courses are comprehensive, so you can safely go shallow diving after getting your certificate. When shallow water diving, you will see lots of fish, plants and coral.

There are also a number of wrecks at Oahu, so you will be able to explore these too, if you have a bit more experience. There are a number of colossal ships down there and millions of fish.

One of the best locations to go scuba diving is Ka’awaloa Cove, which is in western Hawaii. The cove is only accessible by boat, but that is not a problem because there are a number of small boat companies that offer a ferry service. Kona is another great diving location on the big island.

Both of these locations cater for both the novice and the expert. Kona is thick with plankton, which may not sound interesting in itself, until you understand that the plankton attracts giant manta rays. The rays are particularly spectacular when seen on dives at night.

Red Hill and Kona also offer excellent opportunities for diving because there are underwater lava flows. The lava flows are best seen by daylight because that is when the sun shines off them giving them their name of Red Hills. They are just accessible by boat, but then that is not a problem either.

The smaller island of Maui also has great diving sites. Check out Molokini and its underwater volcanic crater. The crater is home for reef sharks, majestic sea turtles, numerous tropical marine fish and the spectacular giant manta rays again. This is one of the best dive sites on Hawaii and really has to be on your short list of must do dives.

The great thing about diving in Hawaii is that there is so much to see and do wherever you are located. OK, the well-liked attractions are simply that, very well-liked, but numerous individuals like being with plenty of other people – after all there is safety in numbers, but Hawaii also has quiet areas which you can discover if you look and the diving will be good there as well because the fish are the same and the water is as warm.

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May 2, 2011

How To Go About First Aid Training On Line

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 9:31 am

Everybody ought to take a course on First Aid, because no one knows when they will be the first person on the scene of an accident. Each parent should know about basic First Aid because children are so accident-prone and everybody should know some First Aid in order to become a decent citizen.

Fundamental First Aid is not hard and you can easily learn how to deal with cuts, fractures, choking, burns, scalds, fainting and several other frequent predicaments.

However, numerous individuals just do not have the time to do First Aid training. For this reason, many firms are now offering First Aid training on line. In fact, apart from learning how to cope with everyday physical worries, you can also learn how to do artificial resuscitation (CPR) and cope with heart attacks and drowning.

It is a fact that some individuals say that you can not learn First Aid on line or by reading a book, but others say that it is better to know something than nothing, that practicing on a dummy is not much use and that most people will hopefully not have to use their First Aid training for years and so will have forgotten the finer points anyway. A happy medium may be to do First Aid training on line first of all and then take a test at a training centre

The fact is that you can learn many items of knowledge during First Aid training on line. You can learn about hygiene, how to decontaminate wounds, how to wrap a bandage and apply a tourniquet or a make-shift tourniquet.

You will also be taught how to help a victim of burns and scalding, which you are much more liable to come across than a victim of heart attack or stroke.

There are many First Aid training courses on line and some are much better than others. As you know, computers are very powerful nowadays, so you ought to look for a course which makes full use of the Internet and your computer’s graphics capabilities.

Computers can produce very life- like images, so do not purchase an old First Aid training package that consists of merely thousands of words but no (interactive) images.

First Aid training on line is not costly and is maybe perfect for those who require a refresher course or a reference manual that they can pick up from time to time. It is also very useful to have a quiz at the end of each chapter to ensure that you have understood what you have read.

Attempt to find a package offering First Aid training on line that can be upgraded, so that you can purchase the modules that you would like to learn. If you purchase First Aid training on line that includes chapters on industrial chemical burns, it is merely padding for most individuals because you will never need to use them. Start with First Aid training on line that deals with the home, the garden and the car and move on from there, if you need to.

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What First Aid Training Do Boy Scouts Get?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:37 am

The Boy Scout Brigade is a global organization and the rules of membership might vary a little from country to country, but the fundamentals of scouting are the same the world over. One of the codes of belief of scouting is to ‘Be Prepared’ and being prepared involves being willing to help others in distress, which also includes First Aid.

Boy Scouts are encouraged to take badges such as the First Aid badge, there are also badges representing different degrees of ability. One of the items that a scout learns while training for his first First Aid badge is how to put together a personal First Aid kit.

A typical fundamental Boy Scout’s First Aid kit will include such things as soap, bandages, plasters, iodine, scissors, matches, tweezers and safety pins. At a higher degree, the kit may be supplemented with a triangular bandage, insect repellent, talcum powder, aspirins or paracetamol, gloves and a mouthpiece for giving artificial respiration.

A scout and especially a sea scout will learn how to put a person in the coma position and will also be shown how to get water out of a person pulled from the water.

The First Aid training that Boy Scouts get now has been upgraded numerous times over the last fifty years due to advances in medical knowledge and the explosion of aids and other contagious diseases.

Scouts lead a very dynamic existence and are always building structures and climbing. This means that there are quite a number of sprains and fractured bones among scouts, so it is not surprising that caring for fractured bones features largely in their First Aid training.

In fact, one of the first items that a cub or a scout is taught is how to use their neckerchief as a triangular bandage to support a fractured arm and how to fold it in order to tie splints to a fractured leg.

Scouts going for higher degree First Aid badges will be shown more detailed courses which might include how and when to apply CPR; how to distinguish a victim of stroke or heart attack; what to do if someone is undergoing an epileptic fit; what to do if someone is unconscious or suffering from concussion; how to deal with shock and much more.

Lord Baden Powell founded the Boys Scout Brigade as a sort of preliminary to going into the army, but it has not been regarded like that for numerous decades. Nowadays the scouts give boys (and sometimes girls) and teenagers the opportunity to do things that they otherwise would never have the opportunity to experience – activities like boating, canoing, camping, map-reading et cetera.

These activities put the children at a higher danger of injury, but the scouting organization counters that increased danger by training all their boys in First Aid and both the events and the First Aid training stays with them for the remainder of their lives. It has with me and I will always be indebted to the Boy Scouts for the items they taught me and permitted me to experience.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on numerous topics, but is at present concerned with First Aid trainer courses. If you have an interest in RC vehicles, please go over to our website now at First Aid Courses Online.

Personal First Aid Kits

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:16 am

It is good advice to “Be Prepared!”, which is the motto of the Boy Scouts. But why give up being prepared when you are an adult? It does not make sense.

One of the facets of being prepared, is to know something of First Aid and having a First Aid box so that you can apply your knowledge.

Once you adopt the attitude of being prepared to deliver First Aid, then there are a couple of things that you have to do next. The first step is to position decently equipped First Aid kits wherever they may become needed such as in the house, in the car and in the garage or work shed.

You can buy these kits on line and in the mall, but you ought to first find out what you should have in your First Aid kit. The contents of these kits can be different for each place that you would like to place one. There will be generic things for each kit, but there may be specialized items too.

Whilst we are at it, position a fire extinguisher by each kit while you are at it. If a fire breaks out you will need to know where the extinguisher is before you need the First Aid box.

After you have thought about where to put your kits, you can begin thinking of what you are going to put in them. Every kit should include items like one inch bandages, iodine, alcohol swabs, plasters, aspirin or and paracetamol, soap, tweezers, scissors, a triangular bandage, throwaway gloves, a few matches and a candle, but there is a lot more that you can include.

However, there are also other things that you can include like a tube of super glue, a thermometer, hydrocortizone, insect repellent, anti-histamine and a torch with extra batteries. If you are putting this kit in a car or boat, you could add a blanket, socks, and gloves.

Another item that you may like to add is a pamphlet on first Aid, just in case it is not you who has to use the kit. This is an vital point, because if this is a car First Aid kit, someone may find you after you have had an accident, but they may not know what to do.

Everyone should take at least one First Aid course and if you are a head of your household it is up to you to persuade the others to learn some fundamental First Aid as well.

It is normally easy enough to find First Aid courses locally. You can look on line, in the Yellow Pages, at your doctor’s surgery or at the civic offices. Frequently the courses are free or sponsored, but at any rate they are not costly.

If you are working, your employer might be receptive to a request for group First Aid training. The difficulty is not finding good First Aid training courses on or off line – the trouble is getting it organized. However, the first step is to make enquiries to find out where the courses are taught.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many topics, but is at present busy with First Aid trainer courses. If you have an interest in RC vehicles, please come over to our website now at First Aid Courses Online.

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