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Most parents choose to give their children an allowance. Two good reasons to give an allowance are:
1. to teach children to manage their money, and
2. to curb their constant requests for money.
Here are some things to consider before handing over those first dollars to an eager child.
When to Start: Perhaps a good time to start is when your child realizes that money can buy the things he wants. That could be as early as 3 years old for some children. The sooner you start, the sooner the learning begins.
How Much: The amount of the allowance will depend on how much you can afford to give, and the age of the child. Most parents don't want their child to have significantly more or less money than other children in the neighbourhood or school. The allowance should increase as the child gets older, and it would depend on what your child is expected to buy with it.
Weekly or Monthly: Most parents give the allowance weekly, as it is too hard for young children to manage their money over an entire month. Pick the day when the allowance is paid and try to stick to it. If your child asks for an advance, and you agree, it is a great opportunity to talk about loans (use of other people's money), what they cost, how they are paid back, and what the penalty is for late payment. Be prepared for your children to ask for interest if you are late with payment of their allowance; it shows they are learning how debt works!
Connection to Chores/Grades: Experts are divided on the issue of the connection of allowances to weekly chores or good grades. Some feel that children should share the family workload just as they share in the resources and advantages of being in the family. The logic is that if parents train their children to share and work together, it builds a giving, volunteer spirit, and if the children do their best to get good grades, the reward will be pride in their accomplishment.
Others argue that to link chores or grades to money will prepare children for the adult world of work for pay. It teaches responsibility and consequences. Some children may respond better to one method more than the other. Some parents use a combination where the allowance is independent of the chores but the children can earn more money if they do extra jobs.
The age and maturity of the child is also a factor. Small children need immediacy, and will not make the connection between putting away their toys on Monday and getting an allowance the following Saturday.
Saving and Giving: Encourage (or insist) your children save a little each week. It will help them learn how their savings grow over time. They can save for short-term goals such as family birthday gifts, as well as long-term goals which might take a year or more.
There are opportunities to learn simple math such as how to divide allowances into parts – 1/4 for saving, 1/10 for charity, etc. Help your child calculate how many weeks of saving it will take before he has enough to buy the item he wants.
Sharing and helping makes everyone feel good. Giving a child an opportunity to see how his money is helping to make someone's life better will make him feel wonderfully empowered. If you can, take him to the place where his money is being used, and show him the people it is helping, such as a centre where homeless people can get a meal.
Kids can learn decision making, patience and goal setting, and sometimes they learn by making mistakes with their money. If they learn the lesson with a small amount, they may not make the same mistake later in life when the stakes are higher.
Here is a link to further discussion on allowances.


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It is important to note that the information below is general, every individual has different treatments and will react to them in differecnt ways. Hopefully there are a few helpful hints below to help…
The key nutritional aims for any cancer patient are to maintain their weight and meet nutritional requirements and maintain adequate nutritional status. There are various factors that can affect your nutritional status including the underlying disease, previous treatment, the type of treatment therapy, the use of steroids, pain medications, nausea and bowel problems. Every cancer and treatment can be different but below are some of the common nutritional issues.
Coping with Nausea
Nausea with or without vomiting is one of the most common complaints among cancer patients. Some describe this as similar to morning sickness and feel the need to eat to overcome the nausea. Others find the sight, smell or thought of food will make them feel unwell. Management of nausea and vomiting depends on the severity of the symptoms. There are many medications now that can help combat nausea but if you suffer from it there are a few dietary things that you can try.
Milder cases can often be treated by consuming small meals frequently, avoiding offensive odors, drinking enough fluids, and getting fresh air. Some tolerate foods high in carbohydrate such as crackers better than high-protein or high-fat foods. In more serious cases of nausea, little and often is the best approach. Cold fluids are often easier to tolerate than foods so drinks of a high calorific value are beneficial.
Infrequent or hard, dry stools may occur as a side effect of medications. To alleviate symptoms you need to;
Increase the amount of soluble fibre in the diet i.e. fruit & vegetables, pulses, oats and seeds
(particularly linseed).
Try to have porridge or oat based cereal for breakfast.
Ensure adequate fluid intake.
Drink a probiotic yogurt drink. The probiotics help to regulate the rhythm of the bowel
Coping with weight changes
For patients who lose weight it is important to encourage them to eat little and often. It can be easier to drink fluids than chew food if you are suffering from nausea so soups and drinks that have a calorific value are beneficial. The best idea is to increase the nutritional density of the food instead of trying to increase the volume of food. Try adding skimmed milk powder to a soups, sauces or casseroles. Another good idea is to add 2 tablespoons of skimmed milk powder to your milk which will increase the protein and calorie content of it and then use that milk for everything throughout the day.
Yogurts, rice- puddings, custard and stewed fruit are all great nutritional ways of increasing your intake and they won't fill you up to much between meals. If struggling with weight loss try to eat every 3 hours and avoid taking in too many empty calorie foods. There are nutritional supplements which can be recommended by your dietitian or doctor. If concerned about your weight loss, ask to see a dietitian.
For patients who gain weight during treatment it is important to reassure them that they should not restrict their calorie intake at this time and they can lose weight once all treatments have finished.
Whether a patient loses or gains weight it can be very sensitive and difficult issue for the individual. It is important that a patient knows that they can be referred to see a dietitian if they are very concerned.
The use of vitamin supplements in cancer patients can indeed be very beneficial but some consultants rather that patients do not take them during chemotherapy treatments. I would always encourage the patient to discuss this issue with their physician. The main concern over taking vitamins while undergoing treatment is possible drug interactions. Once treatments are completed it can be a good idea to take a multivitamin to help build up nutritional stores again.

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Don Cherry – Hockey Night In Canada
Death Of Mike Serba
Today would have been Mike's birthday
Miss the kid
Don Cherry – Hockey Night in Canada – Death of Mike Serba
When our governments first took action and forced the closure of so called "non-essential" businesses, there was one overwhelming thought that stuck in my mind. They had no idea and no concept of the economic damage that they have inflicted by this order .
I'm no doctor or specialist in infectious diseases and nor am I am economic expert. It's just that I've been around about 100 years (lol) and experienced and done a variety of………………………………
I started to write some comments and then thought screw it ……nobody is going to care about a long dissertation by me about the current Covid19 crisis, so I will just let you reflect on this.
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With over 40 plus years of involvement in hockey including coaching, scouting teams & players and 15 years teaching hockey skills; there is one thing that has always stuck in my mind when I watch players in action.
For some reason most players develop a favorite move along with the skating and stick-handling skills to support that move. Probably they were fascinated by some move they saw a pro player do and dedicated themselves to learning it. It becomes their strength. It becomes their "go-to" move and their comfort zone.
But here's the problem. I can guarantee you that after a year or so, everyone in the league will know your "go-to" move and for the most part shut you down.
Under pressure everyone reverts to their comfort zone. Like it or not, that's just what happens.
Learning and doing something new takes one out of their comfort zone. Learning something new feels different. The moves and skill sets don't feel natural. You have to think about what you doing and the brain gets engaged. The need to engage the brain in itself inhibits fluid and skillful execution at the early stages or learning something new. But this is the process. This is what is required to learn something new and develop to the point where it is natural and it will not become natural without constant and many repetitions.
Hockey is played under pressure and under pressure everyone reverts to their comfort zone. It's what you've practiced. It's what you know. Under pressure it's what you'll revert to.
Your strengths will always be your strengths, but what about your weaknesses?
You love the slap shot. You've practiced it constantly and you're good at it and sometimes you score a goal. If you're like most kids I've watched, you take probably take forever to set it up, glide in to the shot, transfer your weight to your front foot as you shoot, and veer to one side after the shot.
But do you have a wrist shot … a snap shot …. a backhand? Are you able to place the puck where you want? Can you shoot all types of shots while in stride from either foot and square up to the net for a potential rebound after shooting?
This just involves some aspects of shooting on net and nowhere near the full breadth of this subject. The full spectrum of skill sets that make up becoming a great hockey player is vast.
My advice to you is to figure out what your weaknesses are and begin to work on them. Think about it; your greatest opportunity to improve as a player is to work on your weaknesses.
When you're at a practice or hockey school session; go with the purpose to work on a specific area of your weaknesses.
In my next blog I'll go over some of my exprience and observations to provide some understanding of the process and challeges of working on new skills.
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If I have to name the one key thing that's a main factor contributing to success or failure in hockey, I would have to say it's a player's attitude.
Sadly, I've seen players develop a bad attitude and watched performance and prospects dwindle and eventually die.
As in life, not everything in your hockey experience is going to go your way.
Think about it; perfection doesn't exist and that's just reality. The ice isn't perfect …. a great pass can hit an imperfection in the ice and jump over a stick. The referees are imperfect human beings that can miss a call or make a bad call and after making a bad call they are likely to act like human beings and stay with the call. Coaches are imperfect human beings and will make poor decisions. And by the way; you as a player are far from perfect.
The biggest problems develop from coaching decisions that a player feels negatively impacts their ice time or stature in the line up.
You as a player have control over how you choose to react.
There are several main areas in which parents can be of great help to your hockey player child.
One is to be aware of and make sure that they're not being inhibited be fear. I wrote about this recently and you can review my thoughts in the Blog titled "Fear And Loathing In Las Hockeyville".
Another, but related situation is to make sure that they are not unrealistic in their expectations related to skills development. All too often they see a highly skilled player display an effortless ease in the performance of a skill and wonder why they struggle with that same skill. I can assure that when it comes to development of demanding physical skills (regardless of the discipline) you have to pay your dues. Its takes time, effort and practice. When they watch someone perform a difficult skill with ease; what they didn't see was the time and effort put out in the development of that skill.
Last but most important please …. please ….. please do not enable a negative attitude. Every normal parent wants the best for their children but I'm amazed at the number of parents who instinctively do exactly the wrong thing when trying to help their child. It seems to me that in the modern world in which we live, we have to make sure everybody just feels good. I've seen a number of situations a where a parent dumps on the coach in some misguided effort to support their child. The following is a real example and not the only instance where I've seen this happen: There was really good player in the Toronto minor hockey system. He was drafted high to the OHL and initial prospects and ranking for the NHL draft were good. However being a 17 year old rookie in the OHL you're not exactly treated as you were in Midget hockey as "the go-to guy". I would overhear the boy's father speaking to his son and say things like …. "the coach is an idiot and doesn't know what he's doing" …… "he has you on the wrong line with the wrong line mates" ….. "your line mates are useless and don't know how to take or give a pass". The players attitude went south …. his play went south ……. prospects and ranking for NHL draft went south. He never played a game in the NHL.
To repeat; the biggest problems develop from coaching decisions that a player feels negatively impacts their icetime or stature in the line up.
You as a player have control over how you choose to react.
Believe it or not, hockey at the higher levels is ultimately quite nondiscriminatory and dispassionate. The reason is very simple. At the higher levels, ownership, management and coaching just wants and needs to win. Winning is everything. Success, money and keeping your job depends on winning. Nobody cares how much money Daddy has or how nicely Mommy smiles as she talks to the coach. I've written previously that I think there are a lot of lousy coaches out there but for the most part even the lousy ones are able to figure out which players are making the biggest contribution to the cause. Ultimately your ability to contribute to the cause with determine your ice time and your success.
If you not getting the ice time you think you deserve, I suggest your best choice is to work your ass off and prove different.
Back just before the NHL strike around 2005 we used have an annual pro-camp that was attended by a good number of NHL players and top prospects to the NHL currently playing in the AHL or OHL. NHL players that attended included Jason Spezza, Steven Stamkos, Brent Burns, Manny Malholtra and Rick Nash. I can tell you that all of these guys worked their asses off. Their work ethic was almost maniacal … and these guys were already in the NHL.
At the same time there were 2 brothers that were in the OHL. They were both drafted highly to the OHL and prospects for the NHL were initially very good. While the guys I mentioned above worked their asses off; these 2 brothers goofed off. Guess what? …. neither brother played a single game in the NHL.
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To be fully correct, I believe the statement should read: "A Good Big Hockey Player Will Always Be Better Than A Good Little Hockey Player ….. Everything Else Being Equal".
Think about it.
Thank about it. What qualities, skills or attributes would the perfect hockey player possess?
I did a Google search of articles written about the abilities and qualities required to be a good hockey player.
One article listed the following: "Skating – Shooting – Stick-handling/Puck Control – Hands – Passing/Play-making – On-Ice Vision".
Another listed these: "Be Coachable – Have Intense Desire To Win- Be Willing To Practice – Be Willing To Make Sacrifices – …….".
(I have to throw an editorial comment in here in about a lot of the articles that I read …. and that is I can't believe the amount of superficial crap that's is written out there.)
I've given considerable thought to this subject over the years and have come to the conclusion that if someone were to write a complete treatise about all of the skills, abilities and attributes that the perfect hockey player would have; it would take a lifetime of work ….. it would be an encyclopedia containing probably at least 20 volumes …. and the 21st volume would be a massive index to the other 20.
The fact is that the perfect hockey player does not exist ….. never has and never will. Everything will never be equal. Size is only one factor. Is is important? …. of course it is. But size alone without sufficient other skills and attributes in the right mix will not achieve success. There are simply too many other factors that come into play. Too many factors that when sufficient in their number and their dimension; will make up for lack of size.
It's a shame when scouting focuses mainly on size. This happens way too often and discourages many players of smaller stature from playing the game.
Look at some of the greatest players of all time: Theo Fleury – Yvan Cornoyer – Marcel Dionne – Henri Richard – Martin St Louis.
Current players of shorter stature include; Ryan Ellis of the Nashville Predators, Mats Zuccarello of the Dallas Stars, Tory Krug of the Boston Bruins, Brayden Point of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks ……. and my all time favorite Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins. Marchand drives me nuts. Every time Boston plays my home team Toronto; Marchand has a big part to play in us losing …. can't stand him but you can bet that I'd love him if he played for Toronto.
(Looking at the official stats listed of the heights for the players listed above; I believe many of the measurements were taken with their skates on.)
Size alone without sufficient other skills and attributes in the right mix will not achieve success. There are simply too many other factors that come into play. Too many factors that when sufficient in their number and their dimension; will make up for lack of size.
In the next couple of Blogs it occurs to me that it would be timely and useful to talk about what in my experience are important factors that contribute to or inhibit success in hockey. Stayed tuned.
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From the mid 1970's through to the early 2000's, player size was the dominant factor in building your team. N.H.L. defensemen had learned the most effective way to stop a speeding forward was to use his stick to obstruct a rushing forward. While hooking, holding and interference were illegal tactics, they were effective and were not being called as penalties.
While the search was on for big strong defensemen, the search was also on for big strong powerful forwards that could stand the abuse and break through the obstruction.
During these years I noted the following observations in the minor hockey scene:
1. The players that were smaller in stature had to develop their skills in order to survive and to be effective. Then as now and with certainty into the future; if you can't be effective, you won't be on the team and so the player smaller in stature went to hockey schools and developed their skills.
2. As I've written before, one of the problems with hockey at the minor levels is that coaches are not really "coaches and teachers" they're recruiters. If you have the best players, you don't need to be a teacher and coach. You just throw them on the ice and win. In the recruitment process the larger stature player and his parents were were being told how great he was and what a great future he had.
If you're already great , there's not much need to work on your skills. I always thought it was a shame that larger stature players didn't feel the need to work on their skills.
The NHL was concerned that the play of the game had become slow, low-scoring and boring. In 2005 the NHL made some important rule changes.
This had a tremendous effect on the speed of play of the game. The slow footed player was now at a big disadvantage. The quick, agile player was now allowed to show his skills and show the value of those skills to winning hockey games. The whole game changed.
One quick result was the elimination of the slow footed enforcer. Toughness and intimidation have always been a part of the game. Many teams had that one tough guy they could put out on the ice when some intimidation was needed. Many of these guys were not the most agile in the world but were not a liability under the old rules. Under the new rules with their lack of speed and agility, they became a liability.
In part 3 I'll give you my take on this subject.
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Way back when there were a lot of hockey players quite a bit shorter than six feet tall. Back then there were only six teams and there wasn't much money to made for hockey players in the NHL. Most players played for the love of the game and most had other jobs in the off-season.
In 1966 the NHL announced expansion and in the 1967-68 season there was a total 12 teams playing in the NHL.
A big change came with the formation of the WHA (The World Hockey Association) a rival league to the NHL, which fielded 12 teams in 1972. The League struggled and was not considered much of a threat, until Bobby Hull; arguably the NHL's top forward at the time, jumped to the new league. Hull was not thought to be seriously considering signing with the WHA and when he told reporters that he would only move to the WHA "for a million dollars", it was both intended by Hull and taken by his audience to be a joke since a million dollars at that time was considered to be a ridiculous amount of money for a hockey player. Nevertheless, the Winnipeg Jets offered Hull a five-year, one million dollar contract with a one million dollar signing bonus. Hull's move to the WHA attracted other first line NHL players and started a wage war between the rival leagues for top talent.
The net result was that hockey was now a very big and costly business and winning became ever more important. Making the play-offs and going deep or winning it all meant thousands of extra dollars to a team.
The saying became; "A good big hockey player will always be better than a good little hockey player".
I remember going to Toronto Maple Leaf games in the mid to late 1970's and watching the Leafs play the Flyers in the Stanley Cup play-offs. At that time the Fliers were known as the "Broad Street Bullies" and the games were a virtual war and blood bath.
This was a time when size and toughness were the primary factors that were considered when selecting a hockey player. This was because of the rules at that time and the way the game was played under those rules.
The center red line was in play for off side passes which slowed down the advancement of a line rush. More important though were the rules on obstruction and fighting. When it came to obstruction and interference, we used to joke that a player could wrap his stick around the waist of an opposing player and "water ski" behind him by being dragged along the ice and not get a penalty. Slashing and hacking at a player was just a part of the game. When it came to intimidation and fighting, it was considered as important as any other asset in your arsenal for success.
Size and toughness became paramount to success.
The play of the game at the minor league levels tends to take it's lead from the play of the game at the NHL and the play of the game quickly filters down to hockey at the very young age groups.
I used to hear this phrase from minor league hockey coaches: "I can teach a player all kinds of things, but I can't teach size".
I know of coaches in the Greater Toronto Hockey League (the biggest minor hockey league in the world) that went out and recruited the biggest players they could find as the easiest pathway to coaching success.
I personally know of quite a number of players who were six foot two or three at the age of 16 that were given shots at the OHL and these players couldn't tie the skates of much smaller skilled players who never got a look. This was happening through the 1980's, 1990's and early 2000's.
They used to say: "A good big hockey player will always be better than a good little hockey player".
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The mental and psychological aspects of an athletes comportment has become an important part of preparation in the modern sports world. In more recent time, this has been studied and better understood and there is hardly a professional athlete today who does not receive coaching in this important area.
You hear athletes refer to being in the zone or being in the moment while in the action of the game and being free from and fear or self doubt.
I want to deal with what I believe is the most important area of the mental side of sports and that is the crippling effects of fear. In this part I'm not dealing with physical fear (the fear of being hit and having and injury in hockey) but the other aspects of fear.
I have spent a great many hours in an arena as a coach and then countless more hours on the ice involved in the teaching and training of individual skills to hockey players. Most of my time in training hockey players was spent with young kids, however I was also fortunate enough to work with a number of first round NHL draft picks and highly successful NHL players.
Over the years I've become more and more aware of the effects of fear in the performance of the hockey player athlete.
To categorize the aspects of fear that I'm talking about it would involve the following; the fear of making a mistake and looking stupid and the fear of letting someone down.
Trust me, no player wants to make a mistake that costs a goal and let his team mates down. It's pretty much a guarantee that if you berate a player for a mistake, you increase the chance that the player will get scared crapless and make even more mistakes.
I've watched players playing with fear during a a game and it was easy to imagine the "thought bubble" above their heads a one would see in a cartoon comic book. These are players that are afraid and thinking about what they should do. But guess what? …. they're already screwed …. the game is unfolding so fast that there is no time for thinking about what to do. The play of the game requires instantaneous reactions; not analysis and thinking about what to do. That will just not work.
Coaches should put players in an environment where they can play without the fear of being berated for making a mistake. We don't want them to make mistakes and mistakes should be pointed out; however, need to understand that making mistakes is part of the learning process.
As a coach you're supposed to be a teacher. Point out and explain mistakes and then explain and teach the correct actions or choices.
Every normal hockey parent wants their children to be successful, however I am constantly amazed at how parents often instinctively do the wrong thing and in fact hinder the success of their children.
Trust me; there is not a child out there that does not want to please their parents. They sense the enthusiasm and passion of their parents in relation to their sporting endeavors and all they want to do is please Mom and Dad.
First advice is to read the section above for coaches.
Second, it's not just in the play of the game, it's also about effort and performance in practices and at hockey school sessions. The same fear of making a mistake and looking foolish takes hold here as well. I've seen many kids give up on doing a new and difficult maneuver because of this fear. Once again they need to understand making mistakes or not getting it perfect is part of the learning process. Additionally, to progress in skill they should understand the need to push their limits in practice and risk failure as a pathway to getting better.
It's OK to expect a solid effort for the commitment of time and money to an endeavor; just don't crap on them for making honest mistakes.
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In the writing of this series, a number of important but random concepts about this topic popped into my head, so I'm lumping them all together as some final thoughts.
There are a number of skills and subsets of skills that need to be mastered to be a great hockey player. Too much of a deficiency in any one these skills will limit a player's career.
I happen to believe that the most important skill that needs to learned is that of skating and handling a puck with one's head up. You can have every other skill set mastered, but if when handling a puck if you have your head down focused on the puck, you will have little or no clue of what is going on around you. You will never be the player you could be and is the single skill set without which your career will end early.
Skating while handling a puck with the head up is not an innate skill. In fact, as I wrote in a previous part of this series, there are a number factors that are typically a part of the usual process of learning hockey that tend to work to produce poor habits. It is an acquired skill that needs to learned and practiced in order to become proficient and become natural.
My advise is to take lessons from a qualified instructor. Fortunately in recent years the fundamentals of hockey skills have been analysed and broken down into their essential elements and there are good people qualified to teach these skills.
As I noted before; If you do not have control of your edges in skating, you will not have control of your lower body and will be fighting to maintain balance. Since your upper body is attached to your lower body; there will little chance to efficiently control and handle a puck. It is wise to get some professional instruction for edge control. Twenty to thirty years ago, there was very little good qualified instruction available but this is no longer the case. Fortunately there are some very good instructors of hockey skills out there. I know of a couple in my area of Toronto, so feel free to contact me for information …. and by the way, I have no attachment what so ever to those I will be recommending.
If you think of the range of motion in which you can move a puck around your body and still maintain control with your stick; it's quite remarkable. If you think further of all of the crazy skating maneuvers that you might be perform at the same time as handling a puck; it should become apparent that a high level of "separation" between your upper body and your lower body is required. It's as if while your lower body is going through all of the crazy skating maneuvers required at a high level hockey; your upper body is sitting relatively serenely atop while moving the puck through the full range of motion possible. Ask your instructor if they do drills using both symmetrical and asymmetrical movements. See if they even know what it means.
It's quite impossible to have you head up all the time under all stick handling situations. You just want to get the head back up as quickly as possible and be very careful of the situation during which your head is down. Watch the Connor McDavid goal once again you will see he puts his eyes down for a split second as he beats Rielly.
The ideal position for carrying a puck is hands in front of your body with hands fairly close together. Take a look a the following picture of McDavid just after he has beaten Rielly.
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First of all keeping you head up while skating with a puck is not an innate skill. It is a skill that needs to be taught and it can be learned. There is specific understanding required and there are specific physical skill sets to be mastered.
The proper technique is to skate with the head up focusing; as much as possible, everything that is going on on the ice around you while maintaining control of the puck by being aware of it using your peripheral vision as much as possible. The opposite; focusing on the puck while using peripheral vision to be aware of what going on around you on the ice, is simply wrong. It not that you never put your head down; it just that you want to minimize this as much as possible and keep you head up as much as possible.
There is a lot action going on when playing hockey. Rapid skating, change of direction, stopping and starting, and transition from forward to backward and back again. Since your upper body is attached to your lower body; the more skilled and in control you are with you skating, the better your chances of being proficient at handling a puck while skating.
I've always been an advocate of getting proper skating instruction from a qualified source. If you're going to be an ice hockey player, you're going to have to put on skates and you better know how to use them proficiently.
The good news is that the proper attitude of the body is the same as that necessary for efficient skating. An athletic position with feet apart, knees bent and a slight forward tilt of the upper body. The position you would see a football linebacker take or the position one would take if someone were to toss you a duffel bag with some heft to it and you were to catch it in your arms.
Every sport involves "controlled tension". In this case you want the least amount of tension necessary for the task and the hands, arms and shoulders should be as relaxed as possible. The arms must hang free from the body and the shoulders should be relaxed. (If you ever feel that the arms are locked into the chest or that the shoulders raised and tense; big trouble and won't work.)
It's tough to describe in writing, but I'm going to do my best.
Here's how they work together:
As a practice exercise, you can stand in an athletic stance with knees bent and feet a comfortable distance apart (using the above and shifting your weight), take the puck and move it as far away from your core in front of you on your backhand side and from there take the puck as far behind you and away from your core on the backhand side. Then as far as possible directly in front of your body and then as far behind your body between your legs. Lastly as far in front and behind on your forehand side.
Another exercise is to stack handle a ball in front of a TV in your rec room. Watch whats on TV and be aware as as much as possible in the room while seeing the ball in your peripheral vision and feeling the ball on your stick. You'll be surprised how much you can see in the room and still see the ball.
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This Artist Has Reimagined All Your Fave Disney Characters As Transgender & It's Pretty Damn Cool
A trans artist has re-drawn a bunch of your fave princesses and other non-royal Disney 'toons as transgender and the results are pretty amazing.
Sharing the re-imaginings on the newly sprouted Instagram page trans.disney, the anonymous artist is also posting messages of love, inclusivity and self-empowerment.
Speaking with HuffPost, the artist (who identifies as trans but has asked to remain anonymous) says decided to start the project to make iconic movies in the Disney universe more inclusive.
The artist has re-imagined dozens of iconic characters as trans, including Belle, Queen Elsa, Cinderella and loads more. Check out some of our faves below.
It took me a long time to think about this one, and how to approach Disney's villains for the first time. Then, the word homophobia and transphobia came to my mind. This "fear" for homosexual and transgender individuals that almost turns them into villains themselves for the society. So, I felt that the right thing to do was turning Ursula into a human being. Someone you'd like to sit next to, and chat with while having a drink together. And to all the homophobic and transphobic people out there... there's nothing to be scared about, except war and hate. **Project not endorsed by Disney. B&W photos found on Google search and redesigned by @trans.disney #transdisney
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If you've been to the LEGO booth at San Diego Comic Con, you'll notice that there are life size models of characters that are brick-built for fans to take pictures with. There are two that have been revealed so far. One is the Iron Man in the Mark LXXXV suit that is holding the Infinity Stones. It took designers 255 hours to design and create using 35,119 bricks.
The other character is a brand new one to the Star Wars Universe and will be in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker which is the Red Sith Trooper. It stands at 6'2″ and designers took 259 hours to design and build using 34,307 pieces.
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In a recent report from mobile game development Mobcast, Shinichi Hanamoto — a former Konami Digital Entertainment executive — has left Konami to work with the aforementioned mobile development group.
Hanamoto was originally a senior contents officer until his promotion to general manager in 2014. As many fans may know, Konami is the licencer and distributor of the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game.
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Matthew 26:5
But they were saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise a riot might occur among the people."
Mark 14:2
for they were saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people."
Matthew 27:24
When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this Man's blood; see to that yourselves."
Acts 19:23
About that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning the Way.
Acts 17:5
But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.
Acts 19:29
The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions from Macedonia.
Acts 19:32
So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know for what reason they had come together.
Acts 19:40
"For indeed we are in danger of being accused of a riot in connection with today's events, since there is no real cause for it, and in this connection we will be unable to account for this disorderly gathering."
Matthew 9:23
When Jesus came into the official's house, and saw the flute-players and the crowd in noisy disorder,
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Telefilm Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds have invested $625,000 in seven upcoming Canadian theatrical documentaries.
The Theatrical Documentary Program coin provides support for the production and post-production costs of selected projects. Among the selected projects are Nettie Wild's Faultlines, a feature doc about a Northern community dealing with environmental damage, which will receive $75,000 in support from the funder.
And Mila Aung‐Thwin's Let There Be Light, which follows scientists devising energy crisis solutions, will receive $100,000, and Rama Rau's League of Exotique Dancers, about the vintage burlesque world, will be backed by a $75,000 investment.
Other investments include Jamie Kastner's The Skyjacker's Tale, about an airplane hijacker still at large after 30 years, receiving $75,000, and Léa Pool's En attendant maman, a minority coproduction with Switzerland, getting $125,000.
Pool's latest film focuses on at-risk children whose mothers are in prison.
Elsewhere, Francis Legault's Le Goût du pays, an ode to maple syrup and those who produce it, is to receive $125,000, and Michel La Veaux's Hôtel La Louisane, about a legendary Paris hotel, will receive $50,000 in Rogers Group of Funds coin.
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What are we waiting for? People around the world are getting raped and killed for some, and all we do is stay quiet. As a rape survivor, I don't know how I can keep my mouth shut after keeping it a secret for too long. I was ashamed of what happened to me. Some got raped and killed on spot, and here I am. Sorry, here we are. I know that I am not alone and not the only one who have been abused in the past. So let's work together for those who will never have the chance to speak again.
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Bob Dylan to tour with new album 'Fallen Angels'
Bob Dylan has announced a new album and accompanying tour as the rock legend showed little interest in slowing down at nearly 75.music Updated: Oct 13, 2016, 17:36 IST
Bob Dylan has announced a new album and accompanying tour as the rock legend showed little interest in slowing down at nearly 75.
Dylan said on Monday that his 37th studio album, Fallen Angels, would come out on May 20 - four days before his birthday - but revealed little else.
The icon of 1960s counterculture revealed the forthcoming album only in passing as he announced a summer tour, writing on Facebook that each pair of tickets would include the CD as a bonus.
Fallen Angels comes barely a year after Dylan's last album, Shadows in the Night, a collection of pop standards that had been performed by Frank Sinatra.
Dylan has remained active and has not offered any hint of impending retirement.
His 2012 album was entitled Tempest, leading some fans to speculate incorrectly it would be his last work as it shared the title of Shakespeare's final play.
But Dylan has also increasingly looked at preserving his legacy. Last week he announced that he was selling his archives to the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, where his notebooks and other memorabilia will go on display near the museum of one of his heroes, folk singer Woody Guthrie.
Read | Bob Dylan sells treasure trove of lyrics, poems to university
Dylan in 2014 released an exhaustive boxed set of all the recordings from his celebrated 1967 "basement tapes" sessions recorded as he recovered from a motorcycle accident.
The rock legend announced that his latest US tour would open on June 4 at the amphitheatre of the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery near Seattle.
The two-month tour -- with support from another celebrated septuagenarian artist, R&B singer Mavis Staples -- will focus on outdoor venues and include Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Dylan has already announced a 15-date tour of Japan in April.
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As many of us race to the finish line for 2016 and our summer holidays, few industries face the seasonal challenges thrown up by the Aussie summer as those in insurance.
Known as 'disaster season', the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) warns the chance of bushfires, cyclones, storms and floods will soar.
The man with the plan is Campbell Fuller, ICA's General Manager Communications & Media Relations. This week, we've asked him about his approaches to 'disaster season'.
"We set ourselves up for success well in advance of the Christmas and New Year shutdown and we anticipate what may take place.
Once you've anticipated what's coming, then you go through the steps of working out the team that you're going to need and how to activate that team, and the holding statements and messages that you're going to need. We have dozens of holding statements ready to roll, right now".
His advice to all companies is to workshop what a crisis might look like and a wide variety of scenarios in which a business may be vulnerable. Researching what's happening to other businesses in your sector can also feed information to you about the kind of issues and crises that may arise.
"For example, if you run a tourism business and there's an issue around food poisoning, that is something that you can anticipate.
"Therefore, you will have in place a holding statement that talks about how you are responding and what it means to your guests and to your staff.
"These statements cannot be about glib sympathy, they actually have to show that you have a plan and you are enacting that plan and you can demonstrate the impact it is going to have," he says.
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In a crisis, ICA makes a decision to be proactive.
"If we're not talking on an issue, somebody else is talking about the wrong thing, spreading misinformation and relying on the squeaky wheel to inform the debate rather than relying on the facts of the circumstance.
"If you get these wrong, you can find yourself falling behind the news cycle and playing catch-up, or worse, having your agenda hijacked by someone else," he says.
Mr Fuller cites now Opposition leader, then Union leader, Bill Shorten, and his media performance at the Beaconsfield Mine disaster in 2006, as a text book example of how to be an effective spokesperson.
"He would update on the situation a couple of times a day, even if there was nothing new. He created the expectation that he would be the person in the know", he says. In fact, Mr Shorten's calm-under-pressure approach earned him spot 11 in News ' 11 tips for handling a PR crisis .
That front-foot behavior means the news agenda is much less likely to be set by someone else. A recent example of giving up the proactive advantage is one few of us will soon forget.
In light of more recent events, Mr Fuller said "Often organisations spend too much time consulting lawyers, and we saw that at the Queensland theme park tragedy.
"By the time the decision was made to respond to the crisis, that organisation had lost any hope it ever had of controlling its own message and how that business was going to be perceived."
While in the days following, Ardent Leisure CEO Deborah Thomas admitted the situation had not be handled well , much of the reputational damage had solidified.
So, taking a leaf from ICA's book to help your financial services brand prepare for any potential communication crisis while most of the team is at the beach, here's our handy checklist.
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The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance announced it seized more than 336 cartons of untaxed cigarettes following two store inspections in Brooklyn. Tax Department investigators conducted "routine inspections" in Brooklyn at S&O Star Deli Corp, 6602 Bay Parkway, and A&B Food Corp, 7402 17th Avenue, on December 3rd 2019. They found a combined total of 336.8 cartons of cigarettes bearing counterfeit New York State and New York City tax stamps, as well as ones with stamps from Connecticut, Georgia, and Virginia. "Business owners who evade the tax on cigarette and tobacco products or other sales put honest merchants at a competitive disadvantage and deprive their communities of revenue used to fund vital services," said New York State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance Michael Schmidt. "We'll continue to conduct these inspections and work with our law enforcement partners to ensure a level playing field for all." The owner of A&B Food Corp, Abul Islam, 59, was arrested and charged with multiple felonies, including possession of a forged instrument, attempt to evade cigarette tax on 10,000 or more cigarettes, and possession for sale of counterfeit-stamped cigarettes. More than 96 cartons of illicit cigarettes were seized from his store. The owner of S&O Star Deli Corp, Salah Aizah, 53, was arrested and charged with multiple felonies, including possession of a forged instrument, possession for sale of 30,000 or more cigarettes, and possession for sale of counterfeit-stamped cigarettes. More than 240 cartons of cigarettes with counterfeit and out-of-state tax stamps were seized from the store. In addition to the criminal charges, the defendants each face fines of up to $600 per carton seized, which would total more than $144,000 for Salah Aizah and more than $57,600 for Abdul Islam. The Kings County District Attorney's Office is prosecuting the cases. A criminal complaint is only an accusation; the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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Meet the iconic photographer behind the Kenzo x H&M campaign
Kenzo x H&M
Even if the name Jean-Paul Goude rings no bells, chances are, you've seen some of his work. The epochal Grace Jones image that inspired Kim Kardashian's Break The Internet cover for Paper magazine was conceived by the one and only Goude. And now he's taken the wheel behind the recently announced Kenzo x H&M campaign. Set to debut on 17 October before the collection drops in over 250 selected H&M stores worldwide, the imagery will also be released online on 3 November.
The campaign features seven diverse personalities and spearheads — It-girl Chloë Sevigny, supermodel Iman, actress Rosario Dawson, Chance the Rapper, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vietnamese rapper Suboi, and teen environmental activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Keep your eyes peeled for Goude's work as it rolls out on billboards and in print.


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In order to understand how light works in Cinema 4D, you need to be well aware of the technical limitations of working with lights. And these technical limitations are across many different 3D applications. Now we'll get to those in a quick second, but for this video, we're going to go ahead and create a scene from scratch, and I want to show you how light functions to actually add a style and dramatically change what it is that you're looking at. So, to start, let's create a floor plane. Go up to your de-former objects and just click the button just to the right.
Once you have the floor plane in the scene, if you render you can see it goes on forever. So, it's actually a great tool to use when you're first trying to create something to light, that way you don't have to worry about what's going on in the background. Now I could apply a material to this floor, but I want to focus solely on how light functions. Now just so that we have a subject, let's click on the cube primitive to add it to the scene. I'll hover over the y-axis and move this cube up until it pops up out of the ground, and then I'll just bring it down until it just intersects with the ground.
Now as a general rule when you're working with squared off objects like this, you want to try and have slightly round edges, so I'm going to enable fill it here, and I'll just change the radius down to something like three, so it's a really narrow edge. Now, if we render what's going on in the scene here, you can see those edges do a great job of picking up the default light that's actually in the scene. But notice, even though we have a floor plane, we can't see any sense of dimension as to what's going on. We need to get rid of the default light in Cinema, and actually create our own lighting setup.
So if you go to the right most button in your toolbar, click and hold on that light. You can see we have multiple kinds of lights that we can use to light our object. So, I'm going to start with a spotlight. When we add a spotlight into the scene, notice the scene goes completely black. If we were to render this, you could see nothing. That's because the light was created right at the origin of the project, and the cube is at the origin of the project. So, we need to move this light along the Z-axis, and then, move it up on the Y-axis.
Now here I just this position this a little further back and I want you to notice that we can see the light here on the front part of the cube. But look at what's going on here in the back. If I render this, notice the light moves right through that object. So that's the first technical limitation I want you to be aware of. Lights do not bounce, even if we had a reflective material it wouldn't bounce off that material. It's just going to shoot right through. So, how do we create something interesting with dimension if the light isn't going to respect the object that's in the scene? Well, we can still make adjustments, so let's go ahead and just click on the light, and go down under the General tab, and we want to enable shadows.
Now, there are multiple kinds of shadows we can use, but for this example, let's just choose shadow map soft. Once we do that, it may look like nothing is happening here in the scene, but if we actually render, you can see now the light isn't passing through my object. It's respecting that object as an object. Now, that's another technical imitation that you need to be aware of. When you are posing your lights and moving them around the scene, if you need an actual dynamic update as to what's going on, you want to press Option+R or Alt+R on Windows to open the interactive render region.
With the render region open, you can click on the edges to resize and choose exactly what part of the scene you'd like to analyze. On the right side here, you should see an arrow. It may be here on the right in the middle. Just click and drag that up to create a high resolution preview of your scene. Now, I don't want to work with that right now so I'll press Option+R or Alt+R on Windows to get rid of it. The important thing to remember, don't pay attention to lighting in the edit window, always render what it is you're looking at. Now there are a ton of options for spotlights, but for now I just want to disable this light.
So if we go to the objects manager I can just click on the check mark to disable that light. I want to use a much softer light to create a soft diffuse light thought my scene. So let's go back up under our light object, click and hold and add an Area Light. Notice if we render the scene, the area light actually is emitting light, it emits light along the Z-axis. But notice we have this really dark line here. Well let's go ahead and click on that light and move it off to the side here. Then we'll go ahead and move it up in the scene.
And you can see the light is a box, which is great, but that black line is created because it throws light exactly along the Z-axis, and it throws it at 180 degrees on both sides, so it throws it in a positive and negative fashion. If we need to make adjustments to that, we can under the details area of this light. So let's go to details and the only adjustment I want to make right now is all the way to the bottom. Let's enable Z direction only.
Once we do that, now the light's only going along the positive of the Z-axis. Now let's move this light over to the side, and I'm just going to switch to four-up view so I can better see what's going on here. We'll position it over on the side and up on the cube, and then we can just adjust its rotation. So I'll just point it more towards the cube and tilt it down towards the cube. And then if we render our scene here, you can see, okay we've got much more dimensionality and a beautiful soft diffused light, but nothing is grounded for our object.
So we need to select the light and go to its general settings and enable shadows. So again let's just choose shadow map soft. If we render the scene, now you can see I've created a much more dramatic scene with this light that's actually coming across my object. Now notice we haven't used any materials and materials obviously change the appearance of an object. But, if you want to change your scene and add drama and dimension, definitely stop using the default lights, use the new lights and light your scene accordingly.
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This is Ted Dekker's exploration of his faith journey. You can feel the pain in so many pages as he searches for what he knows Jesus can be.
Waking Up: To Who You Really Are (If You Dare)
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Question: where does free will come from in all of us( the will to do anything you want) also, i am the yr8 kid that was on the chat earlier)
Asked by johnarnoldambay to Mia, Mick on 5 Sep 2013.
Keywords: freewill
answered on 5 Sep 2013:
Hello! Thanks for the fun CHAT today – you guys were awesome!
(I did extension Maths and English Lit when I was in high school – so high 5 to your school for supporting you in your Chem!)
Now…. free will… Fantastic question.
The whole concept of free will has has religious, legal, ethical, and scientific implications.
Wikipedia gives a good outline of these (as part of a longggggg entry) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will
It says, "For example, in the religious realm, free will implies that individual will and choices can coexist with an omnipotent divinity. In the law, it affects considerations of punishment and rehabilitation. In ethics, it may hold implications for whether individuals can be held morally accountable for their actions. In science, neuroscientific findings regarding free will may suggest different ways of predicting human behaviour."
It's fair to say that scientists don't all agree on where free will comes from. There are many theories.
You might enjoy this TED talk about freedom (?) of choice:
Where do you think it comes from?
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Hi again John,
So you're the extended chemist eh? Thanks great, I was shocked when I heard that in todays chat. Hope you find it as interesting as I do.
Mia's given you some good links, but I can only you my thoughts.
Free will is one of those wonderful qualities of the human condition, or at least the perception of free will is. If you were nomadic, your ability to enjoy life, or just to live at all would be completely governed by your free will.
As we now all life in complex civilisations under the heading of capitalism and democracy, free will isn't something that we really have control over anymore. In order for society to function, we each need to influence eachothers free will in order to get whatever it is we're after; money, food, security or happiness.
Not sure thats really a scientific observation, but it the opinion of a scientist… if that counts 🙂


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A horrible traffic jam @ Tanglewood
4:53pm by the gate (inside) after the matinee was over.
A totally avoidable nightmare concluded our Beethoven's weekend. What the management is thinking to start matinee at 2:30pm, asking us to leave the parking lot by 5:30, for the evening performance at 8pm. We sat in the parking lot for 40 minutes and on the West Street for 46 minutes.
- 2020, another nightmare
Global warming!
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